Independence
Day
Namibia : March 21 1990
UN
Day
International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
World
Poetry Day
International
Day of Nowruz
World
Down Syndrome Day
International
Day of Forests
World Puppetry Day, recognized by UNIMA
World Puppetry Day, comes every March 21.
The idea came from the puppet theater Dzhivada
Zolfagariho from Iran. In 2000 at the XVIII
Congress of the Union Internationale de
la Marionnette, (UNIMA) in Magdeburg, he
made the proposal for discussion. Two years
later, at a meeting of the International
Council of UNIMA in June 2002 in Atlanta,
the date of the celebration was identified.
The first celebration was in 2003.
International Day of Forests, recognized
by the UN
International Day of Forests, observed for
the first time on March 21, 2013, was established
by resolution of the United Nations General
Assembly on November 28, 2012. To be held
each year on the 21st day of March, the
occasion is intended to be one of the world's
leading global platforms for people with
an interest in forests and climate change
to share their views and work together to
ensure forests are suitably incorporated
into any future climate change mitigation
and adaption strategies.
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