World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
On 20 June 2024, a high-level event co-hosted in Paris by the Government of France, the African Union and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, along with the support of Team Europe, will launch the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA), an initiative that will provide financial incentives to help vaccine manufacturers in Africa scale up production and become sustainable on a long-term basis.
The event will also make the case for donors to invest in a new era of immunisation with the launch of Gavi’s investment opportunity for 2026–2030.
The FHF Global Summit will convene diverse stakeholders from both the climate and health communities, harnessing the knowledge and expertise from multiple disciplines to explore transformative new partnerships and initiatives, and catalyze collective movement “from awareness to action” on climate change and its impact on human health.
Returning to Sydney, Australia in June 2024, the third Global Health Security Conference provides a forum where leaders, researchers, policymakers and representatives from government, international organizations, civil society and private industry from around the world can engage with each other, review the latest research and policy innovations, and identify solutions to make the world safer and healthier.
The Day of the African Child (DAC) was instituted in 1991 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU in memory of the 16th June 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa. At that time, students marched protesting the poor-quality education they received and demanding to be taught in their languages. During the protest hundreds of school children were killed.