Awareness Themes

December 2024

Month-long Observances:

• AIDS Awareness Month

• Decembeard

• Universal Month for Human Rights

• Disability History Month (continues from November)

Awareness Days and Events:

• December 1: World AIDS Day / Advent Sunday

• December 2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

• December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

• December 5: International Volunteer Day

• December 7: Rohatsu (Bodhi Day)

• December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception

• December 10: Human Rights Day

• December 12: International Universal Health Coverage Day

• December 15: Dhanu Sankranti

• December 18: International Migrants' Day

• December 20: International Human Solidarity Day

• December 21: Winter Solstice / Yule

• December 22: Hanukkah begins

• December 24: Christmas Eve

• December 25: Christmas Day / Hanukkah / Zarathosht Diso

• December 26: Boxing Day / Feast of Saint Stephen / Hanukkah

• December 27: Hanukkah

• December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents / Hanukkah

• December 29: Hanukkah / Feast of the Holy Family

• December 31: Hanukkah / New Year's Eve / Hogmanay / Watch Night