The World Cancer Day theme also affirms, to promote cancer preventions programs, one should encourage the intake of clean, healthy, unadulterated food, avoid the of use of tobacco and its marketing among children and help children grow in healthy and pollution-free environment.

Human rights belong equally to each of us and bind us together as a global community with the same ideals and values. As a global community we all share a day in common: Human Rights Day on 10 December, when we remember the creation 63 years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Corruption is a serious crime that can undermine social and economic development in all societies. No country, region or community is immune.

Persons with disabilities make up an estimated 15 per cent of the world’s population.International Day of Persons with Disabilities is oragnized on 3rd December all over the world to draw attention to key areas that would work in synergy to mainstream disability in all development process

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai formally announced the much-talked-about Visit Lumbini Year 2012 (VLY-2012) from the birthplace of Gautam Buddha on Thursday,December 1, 2011 (Mangsir 15, 2068)

Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. 23rd World AIDS Day is being celebrated with the theme "Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths"

World Diabetes Day raises global awareness of diabetes - its escalating rates around the world and how to prevent the illness in most cases. The slogan chosen for this year's campaign is:  Act on Diabetes. Now.

Global Handwashing Day (GHD) is a campaign to motivate and mobilize millions around the world to wash their hands with soap. It takes place on October 15 of each year. The campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of handwashing with soap as a key approach to disease prevention.

The slogan for the 17th National Condom Day is: ‘universal access to condom for dual protection’; that is preventing transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases as well as stopping unwanted pregnancy.

Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said. Jobs was 56. Industry watchers called Jobs a master innovator -- perhaps on a par with Thomas Edison -- changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications.