Every year, 20 February is celebrated as World Social Justice Day. On November 26, 2007, the UN General Assembly decided to celebrate the day from 2009 in a resolution. The main objective of this day is to create awareness for the establishment of social justice at regional, national and international levels. The day is especially emphasized on poverty alleviation, solving unemployment, eradicating various kinds of inequalities in the society and removing gender inequality. In 1995, various awareness programs were conducted to achieve the goals set at the World Conference on Social Welfare held in Copenhagen, Denmark, the capital of Denmark. The day also promotes that ‘a society for all’ can be possible only by establishing justice at all levels of society and respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
21 February is celebrated as International Mother Language Day every year with the aim of raising awareness about linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. On November 17, 1999, UNESCO announced the day of the day. However, this day was celebrated as Language Movement Day in Bangladesh. In 1999, UNESCO granted international status to the day. mention
On March 21, 1948, Pakistan’s Governor Genebel Mohammad Ali Jinnah announced that Urdu would be the only official language in both East and West Pakistan. However, the Bengali-speaking major East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) strongly protested against the announcement and staged a fierce agitation. On February 21, 1952, the Pakistani military jumped on the protesters in Dhaka. Several students of the University of Dhaka were killed by security firing. Since then, this day was celebrated as Language Movement Day in Bangladesh. From 1999, UNESCO decided to celebrate this day as International Mother Language Day.
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