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The fifteenth day of June is designated as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of elder a..→

The global population of people aged 60 years and older will more than double, from 542 million in 1995 to about 1.2 billion in 2025. Around 4 t..→

Father’s Day is a relatively new holiday in U.S. holiday calendar. A Day, celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, was officially made a natio..→

As per the Remittances Stats, one in every ten people around the globe is directly associated with remittances. The U.S. is the largest remittan..→

The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War..→

The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) is observed worldwide on 17 June every year (UN: A/RES/49/115). Tackling hunger requires a multi..→

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to Emancipation Day by African-Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865 Union Major-General ..→

“Women’s security and empowerment remain priorities for the Secretary-General. The international community must not rest until all violence agai..→

The nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that Ju..→

The New River Gorge Bridge, in Fayetteville (WV), is the longest steel-arch bridge in the United States spanning 1, 815 feet across the New Rive..→

At the end of 2013, there were 16.7 million refugees worldwide, with the highest number in Pakistan (1.6 million). We are now in 2016 witnessing..→

In effect Californians created a surfboard with wheels. California was the birthplace of the skateboarding culture. In 1976, Florida built the f..→

Several scholars have noted that yoga had been packaged so well as a defense against illness and aging that it is “easy to lose sight of its rea..→

Although summer solstice marks the beginning of summer, it is not the hottest time of the year and Earth is not the only planet to have a summer..→

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one-third of all women who become widowed are younger than age 60, and half of th..→

On this date back in 1894, the modern Olympic Games were born. To celebrate the occasion, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) encourages e..→

The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/277, designated 23 June as Public Service Day. The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the..→

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the saf..→

By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit..→

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned tortur..→

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person t..→

Those enterprises, which generally employ fewer than 250 persons, are the backbone of most economies worldwide and play a key role in developing..→