International Mother Language Day

Recognized by UN, UNESCO

International Women's Day

Recognized by UN

Mother's Day

International Widow's Day

Recognized by UN

International Day of the Girl Child

Recognized by UN

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Recognized by UN

The 1993 World Conference on Human Rights: this recognized violence against women as a human rights violation.

The 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was the first international instrument explicitly defining and addressing violence against women. This document specifically refers to the historically ever-present nature of gender inequalities in the understanding of violence against women. This Declaration, as well as the World Conference of the same year, is often considered as a "turning point" at which the consideration of violence against women by the international community began to be taken much more seriously than ever in history, and after which more countries mobilized in the tackling of this problem.

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, connects violence against women to reproductive health & rights, and also providing recommendations to governments on how to prevent & respond to violence against women and girls worldwide.

In 2004, the World Health Organization published its "Multi-country study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women," a study of women's health and domestic violence by conducting a survey with data collected from over 24,000 women in 10 countries from all regions of the world, which assessed the prevalence & extent of violence against women, particularly those committed by intimate partners, and linked this with health outcomes to women as well as documenting strategies & services which women use to cope with intimate-partner violence.

In 2013, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) adopted, by consensus, Agreed Conclusions on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (formerly, there were no agreed-upon conclusions).

Also in 2013, the UN General Assembly passed its first resolution calling for the protection of defenders of women's human rights. The resolution urges states to put in place gender-specific laws and policies for the protection of women's human rights defenders and to ensure that defenders themselves are involved in the design and implementation of these measures, and calls on states to protect women's human rights defenders from reprisals for cooperating with the UN and to ensure their unhindered access to and communication with international human rights bodies and mechanisms.