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May 17 was chosen because the date is the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s May 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. This victory of the lesbian-gay-bisexual and transgender (LGBT) cause was a historic step towards considering freedom of sexual orientation and gender identity as a fundamental basic human right. [...]

This Christian Aid Week (13 – 19 May 2012), let’s give the tools to help people in poverty out of poverty. http://www.caweek.org/resources/young-people.html Young people Assemblies, talks and activity sheets to inspire children and young people in churches and schools. All-age talk An all-age talk introducing the people of Gbap in Sierra Leone and looking they [...]

World Fair Trade Day is the first global campaign for The Fair Trade movement connecting producers and customers around the world and is endorsed by WFTO.   Events you can organize for WFTDay 2012 Face painting Let’s colour the celebration with face painting event! This is a fun event. Paint your face with the WFTDay [...]

You may have come across a reference in a diary or elsewhere to the fact that 9 May is “Europe Day” and perhaps asked about its significance. Probably very few people in Europe know that on 9 May 1950 the first move was made towards the creation of what is now known as the European [...]

(via The Tree Council) Walk in the Woods is the Tree Council’s month-long festival to encourage everyone to enjoy trees and woods in spring. Across the UK, walks, talks and other events take place in town and countryside throughout May – a great month to go down to the woods or to a local park [...]

Vesak is the holiest day in Buddhism. On this day are celebrated the birth, the Enlightenment, and the death of the Buddha. This day is usually in the middle or last two weeks of May. Buddhists the world over rejoice and ponder this day, which is itself a symbol of rejoicing and pondering. Celebrations can [...]

St. Florian was a patron from Noricum, Rome in three hundred A.D., who was said to be one of the first commanding fire fighters of an actual battalion. As legend states, St.Florian saved an entire village engulfed in flames using just a single bucket of water. Legend also states, because of this act St.Florian is [...]

There is an old superstition that rowan trees (also known as mountain ash) offer protection against wishes. It is considered unlucky to cut down a rowan tree except on St Helen’s Day, cut with a household knife from a tree the cutter had never seen before. It must be taken home by a different route [...]

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World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. World Asthma Day 2012 will take place on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The theme of World Asthma Day 2012 will be “You Can Control Your Asthma.“ On their website you’ll find [...]