Activities
By and through our various programs, we provide educational materials and professional assistance to libraries in the Caribbean and Latin America, and help develop free cultural programs, such as book fairs, lectures, cultural festivals and art exhibits, for U.S.-based libraries. We strive to collaborate with organizations and other institutions that share our goals. We also organize activities that celebrate major international days observed by UNESCO, including:
Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27
Every year around January 27, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that may lead to group-targeted violence. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp by Soviet troops on January27, 1945. It was officially proclaimed, in November 2005, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust by the United Nations General Assembly.
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What UNESCO Center for Global Friendship does for Holocaust Remembrance.
Our organization marks this important anniversary by holding high profile events recalling the continued relevance to teach and learn about the Holocaust, globally. We provide forums intended to help foster cultural awareness, mutual respect, solidarity and intellectual honesty among cross-generational and multi-ethnic audiences.
International Women Day
March 8
UNESCO and its partners work to provide solutions to reduce inequalities in and through education, to empower women in science and technology for environmental action, to promote inclusion and combat gender-based violence, to bridge the digital gender divide and to support women’s empowerment in crisis, emergency and early recovery contexts.
UNESCO is committed to gender equality as a human rights issue and a precondition for sustainable people-centered development. It is at the core of UNESCO’s conviction of how to build lasting peace.
The UNESCO Center for Global Friendship, Inc. develops and presents programs that highlight the importance of this special celebration and create awareness about the gender inequalities in the communities we serve.
World Press Freedom Day
May 3
World Press Freedom Day celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
In celebration of this date, UNESCO Center for Global friendship, Inc. organizes events where media professionals reflect on issues of press freedom and professional ethics.
Slavery Remembrance Day
August 23
This International Day is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. Our event will offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
Friendship Day
July 30
In a time when the noise of division grows louder — fueled by wars, conflicts, inequality, and fear — friendship feels almost radical in its simplicity. It doesn’t arrive with fanfare or policy; it doesn’t need speeches or signatures. It begins with something quieter: a conversation, a shared moment, a willingness to see one another not as strangers but as fellow travelers through the human experience.
In this year’s observance of the International Day of Friendship, we’re reminded that real peace is forged not only in negotiation halls or by writing into treaties — it’s built, thread by thread, in the trust we extend to one another in daily life.
Friendship, especially among young people, holds a special kind of power. It can cross languages, faiths, and histories that might otherwise divide us. It invites us to listen before we judge, to stay when it's easier to walk away. And when nurtured across cultures and communities, friendship becomes more than a bond—it becomes a blueprint for reconciliation. It teaches us that understanding isn’t a grand achievement; it’s a habit, a practice, a way of moving through the world that says, 'your well-being matters to me too'.
(United Nations)