https://cfc-swc.gc.ca/commemoration/whm-mhf/index-en.html The Hashtags are updated annualy. October is Women’s History Month in Canada, a time to celebrate the women and girls from our past and our present, who are contributing to a better, more inclusive Canada.

https://www.un.org/en/events/ruralwomenday/ Beginning in 2008 Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including Indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.

https://cfc-swc.gc.ca/commemoration/whm-mhf/persons-personne-en.html Marks the day in 1929 when the historic decision to include women in the legal definition of persons was handed down by Canada’s highest court of appeal. This gave women the right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada and paved the way for women’s increased participation in public and political life.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/childhood-adolescence/national-child-day.html Beginning in 1993 United Nations adoption of two documents centered on children’s rights: the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959, and the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child on November 20, 1989.

http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/end-violence-against-women

In most Canadian provinces

https://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/home-accueil.html Beginning in 2017. In 2020, this was held in November, but it is sometimes in May.

http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action #16Days #OrangetheWorld Canada has their own theme that they set in place every single year.

https://cfc-swc.gc.ca/commemoration/vaw-vff/remembrance-commemoration-en.html #December6 Anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women, engineering's students at L'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

https://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/ Beginning in 1948 #StandUp4HumanRights Day the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights