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The lure of a well-paid job in a wealthy country is a powerful driver of international migration. The attraction has intensified as the difference in incomes among countries continue to grow.

This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts.

This year's theme of the observance emphasizes that an inclusive COVID-19 recovery can only be achieved with integrity and accountability.

This year, World Soil Day 2020 (#WorldSoilDay) and its campaign carries the theme "Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity.”

The theme this year is “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World.”

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2 focuses on eradicating contemporary forms of slavery, such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labor, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.

On December 1, we pray for all of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2020 occurs on Thursday, November 26.

To raise awareness and trigger action to end this global scourge, the UN observes International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25.

World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the tool, but rather the philosophy which it represents. Television represents a symbol for communication and globalization in the contemporary world.

Using the toilets with people that we don't live with means we are being potentially exposed to new sources of COVID-19.

According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, currently 64 million people have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and three million people died of COPD.

The Declaration affirms that tolerance is neither indulgence nor indifference. It is respect and appreciation of the rich variety of our world's cultures, our forms of expression, and ways of being human.

The Day highlights the significant role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues.

Rapid urbanization and growing tourism in tsunami-prone regions are putting ever-more people in harm’s way.

Public consciousness of the importance of preservation of these recordings must be engaged and the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is intended to be the platform for building global awareness.

In this age of digital communication, sharing of information and knowledge has become very easy. It has become integral in the development of human society. Without it, society, a country, will be left behind.

Every Catholic community, in every country, sends a powerful message of faith, hope and love on this special day.

Eradicating poverty means expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which human beings live.

Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar.