International Days October 8 2020 (United Nations)

The following is an overview of the days and the corresponding celebration declared by the United Nations that apply to Thursday, 2020-10-08:

• World Sight Day:

  ^[WHOSPN] Held every year on the second Thursday in October, World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired. The Day is observed around the world and is the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
  • Official note

• World Space Week - Day 5

  • Official note
  • A/RES/54/68

Notes:

^[WHOSPN] This is not part of the official public campaigns of the World Health Organization.