Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
December
19 December: International Day for South-South Cooperation
October
17 October: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
15 October: International Day of Rural Women
August
12 August: International Youth Day
9 August: International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
June
17 June - World Day to combat desertification and drought
5 June - World Environment Day
March
22 March - World Water Day
8 March - International Women’s Day