https://www.orangeshirtday.org/ Beginning in 2013 #EveryChildMatters Goal is to create awareness of the individual, family, and community intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools through orange shirt day activities and to promote the concept of “Every Child Matters”. Orange Shirt Day is promoted across Canada as an initiative to support and ally with the Indigenous communities to […]

https://agewell-nce.ca/national-seniors-day-2019#:~:text=October%201%20is%20National%20Seniors,appreciate%20and%20celebrate%20older%20adults. Celebrating and appreciating the lives of older adults. Enhancing the quality of life for seniors is a top priority for health-care workers interacting with older adults. They make connections easier and support seniors through their changing relationships.

https://www.nwac.ca/ #SISVigils #MMIW #MMIWG Honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Sisters in Spirit Vigils.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day Beginning in 2011 #DayoftheGirl The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girl's empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights.

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.

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