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Internationally Recognized Days other days   May 15: International Day of Families May 15 is celebrated as the International Day of the Family. This day highlights the importance of families. It aims at fostering equality, bringing about a fuller sharing of domestic responsibilities and employment opportunities. The programmes undertaken to commemorate the day, work towards supporting families in the discharge of their functions. They tend to promote the inherent strengths of families, including their great capacity of self-reliance, and stimulate self-sustaining activities. Family constitutes the basic unit of society. Hence, the widest possible protection and assistance should be accorded to families so that they fully assume their responsibilities within the community to the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on Social Progress and Developments and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women. Search TIG for International Day of Families Visit the official website for 'International Day of Families' Share your family with the world! Hundreds of members at TakingITGlobal.org use our online magazine, Panorama, to share their personal stories and writing with the rest of the world! Tell the world about your family - Submit a story about what makes your family unique, an interview with a family member you admire, or a poem that expresses how much you appreciate them! Participate here... Check out other tools on the Site Map