On 1 March, people across the planet celebrate Zero Discrimination Day. UN and other international organizations celebrate Zero discrimination Day as an Annual Day. Discrimination has many forms, from racial or religious discrimination to gender-based discrimination, sexual orientation or age, and to bullying at school or at work. This day aims to promote more equality and the right to everyone to live life with more dignity. Zero Discrimination Day is helping to create a global movement of unity to end all forms of discrimination.

SIGNIFICANCE OF ZERO DISCRIMINATION DAY

On 1^st March 2014 UN celebrated the first Zero Discrimination Day in Beijing, after its launch by UNAIDS on WORLD AIDS DAY IN December 2013. Zero Discrimination Day is a UN program on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). UNAIDS called on people to ‘make some noise around zero discrimination, in February 2017, to inform and prevent discrimination from standing within in the way of achieving ambitions, goals, and dreams.

THEME 2020: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

This year UNAIDS is challenging the discrimination faced by women and girls in order to boost awareness and mobilize action to promote equality and empowerment for women and girls. Although some countries have made commendable progress towards discrimination against women and girls and create gender equality. Some other forms of discrimination are, for example, race, ethnicity, disability, gender identity and income which harm the rights of women and girls. In many countries, laws that discriminate against women and girls remain in power, but laws that support women’s basic rights and protect them against unequal treatment are far from the norm.

INFORMATION SOURCE:https://www.unaids.org/en/2020_ZDD_campaign

How this day is celebrated

International Organizations actively promote the day with various activities to celebrate everyone’s right to live a full life with dignity in spite of gender, sexuality, nationality, skin color, height, weight, age, beliefs, and education. Many countries have laws against discrimination but its still some countries that have use discrimination as a way of governing.

Zero Discrimination Day aims to inform people about peace, compassion, promote inclusion and, a movement for change.