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Observances
4 January: World Braille Day*
8 February: International Epilepsy Day*
21 March: World Down Syndrome Day
2 April: World Autism Awareness Day
13 June: International Albinism Awareness Day
25 June: World Vitiligo Day*
19-25 September: International Week of the Deaf*
28 September: International Day for the Universal Access to Information
5 October: World Habitat Day
8 October: World Sight Day*
10 October: World Mental Health Day
17 October: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
29 October: World Psoriasis Day*
31 October: World Cities Day
3 December: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
10 December: Human Rights Day
* Not an official UN observance
Events in 2017
16 to 18 January: UN World Data Forum, Cape Town, South Africa
8 to 10 March: The right to work for persons with disabilities: International perspectives, Kassel, Germany
9 to 11 March: Third Symposium Franco-Latin American Research on Disability, Porto Alegre, Brazil
19 to 21 March: Access Israel 5th International Convention, Tel Aviv, Israel
22 to 26 May: UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Cancun, Mexico
23 to 24 May: Afghan Disability Rights Conference: From Policy to Programming, Washington, DC
13 to 15 June: 10th session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, New York, USA
13-14 July: Disability Innovation Summit, London, United Kingdom
7 to 9 August: 5th Afrinead Conference,Kumasi, Ghana
18 to 24 September: International Week of the Deaf
9 to 11 October: Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, Hawaii, USA
8 to 10 November: 3rd International Conference of the World Federation of the Deaf, Budapest, Hungary
