The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People pays tribute to the indigenous communities of the world. The latest data reveals that there are about 370 to 500 million indigenous people living in 90 countries.

On agosto 17, Jamaicans celebrate Marcus Garvey Day. It honors a Jamaican-born political activist, orator, publisher, journalist and entrepreneur who fought for the rights of Afro-Jamaicans. Marcus Garvey was born on agosto 17, 1887 in Saint Ann’s Bay to a stonemason and a domestic servant.

World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have died working for humanitarian causes.

El Día Mundial de las Personas Mayores se celebra cada año el 21 de agosto. Esta celebración tuvo lugar por primera vez en 1991 y tiene por objeto sensibilizar sobre los factores y problemas que afectan a las personas mayores, como el deterioro de la salud y el maltrato a las personas mayores.

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on agosto 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.