JUNE 1^st: World Milk Day

• World Milk Day was established by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN to recognize the importance of milk as a global food, and to celebrate the dairy sector.

JUNE 4^th: International day of innocent children victims of aggression

• On 19 August 1982, UN, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression”
• The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse.

JUNE 5^th: World Environment Day

• World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
• Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP.
• It is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international exposition through the week of June 5.

JUNE 8^th: World Ocean Day

• Proposed in 1992 by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development & the Ocean Institute of Canada at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Officially recognised by the UN in 2008.
• The International day supports the implementation of worldwide Sustainability Development Goals and fosters public interest in the management of the ocean and its resources.

JUNE 12^th: Anti-Child Labour Day

• The World Day Against Child Labour, which is held every year on June 12, is intended to foster the worldwide movement against child labour in any of its forms.
• World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 in order to bring attention and join efforts to fight against child labour

JUNE 14^th: World Blood Donor Day

• Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
• The event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood.

JUNE 20^th: World Refugee Day

• On 4 December 2000, the UN General Assembly in Resolution decided that, from 2000, 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day.
• In this resolution, the General Assembly noted that 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

JUNE 21^st: Father’s Day (3^rd Sunday)

• Father’s Day is celebrated worldwide to recognize the contribution that fathers and father figures make to the lives of their children.
• This day celebrates fatherhood and male parenting.

JUNE 26^th: International Day against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking

• It is observed annually on 26 June, since 1989. The date June 26 is to commemorate Lin Zexu’s dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong, ending in June 25, 1839, just before the First Opium War in China.
• The observance was instituted by General Assembly Resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987.