Dates for your diary 2021: Key events in the anti-trafficking calendar
The following are some of the dates marking key events in the calendar of the anti-slavery movement, both historical and modern.
Perhaps you, your workplace, your group, your church or your school would like to choose one or more of these days to run an awareness-raising campaign, fundraising drive or to mark the day in some other way?
- Saturday, 20 February
World Day of Social Justice
- Thursday, 25 February
Shine A Light on Slavery Day, co-ordinated by the END IT Movement
- Thursday, 25 March
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Monday, 12 April
International Day for Street Children
- Saturday, 12 June
World Day Against Child Labour
- Friday, July 30
UN World Day against Trafficking in Persons
- Monday, 23 August
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
- Monday, 18 October
Anti-Slavery Day, UK, part of Anti-Slavery Week
- Thursday, 2 December 2021
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- January 2022
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, USA