CURRENT AFFAIRS: DAYS
International Migrants Day 2020: Observed on Dec 18
- The International Migrants Day is observed on 18 December every year.
- On 4 December 2000, the UN General Assembly (UNGA), taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants Day
- The day was selected to mark the anniversary of the 1990 adoption by UNGA of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- The theme of International Migrants Day 2020 : ‘Reimagining Human Mobility’.
- To mark International Migrants Day this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called for the world community to come together and remember the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives.
Minorities Day 2020: Celebrates on Dec 17
- The Minorities Rights Day is observed in India every year on December 18.
AIM:
- The aim of the day is to advance and protect the privileges of the individuals to have a place with linguistic, religion, castes and color minorities.
