World Development Information Day Is Celebrated On 24 October
Highlights:
- The United Nations’ World Development Information Day is held on 24 October every year.
- The Day aims to draw the attention of world public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them for overall growth and development.
- The UN General Assembly established the World Development Information Day in 1972 to coincide with the United Nations Day.
- The General Assembly in 1972 established World Development Information Day to draw the attention of the world's development problems and the need to reinforce international cooperation to solve them.
- The Assembly decided that the date for the Day should coincide with United Nations Day, 24 October.
- It was also the date of the adoption of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade.
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