International Day of Care and Support
UN observance since 2023. About $11 trillion of unpaid care work happens each year — three times the global tech industry, mostly performed by women.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
Switzerlandofficial
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2013
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.- 2022At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2022At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- 2020Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.