The International Day of Families is held annually on May 15. In the era of coronavirus pandemic, this day would be more touching as thousands of people are away from their families. Several families are affected as the pandemic has conquered the whole world.
The UN uses the International Day of Families as a way to recognise that family structures have undergone many changes due to social, economic, and demographic factors. The annual event provides a way to highlight the important role that families hold in communities and raises issues that may affect families.
History of International Day of Families:
In 1993, the United Nations passed a resolution to showcase the determination of the organisation to encourage better living standards and social progress of families across the globe. In 1994, the United Nations officially declared the International Day of Families in response to the changing economic and social structures that are affecting the stability and structure of family units in different parts of the world. International Day of Families celebrates the fact that families are the central part of any society.
International Day of Families 2020: Quotes and wishes to share with your families on social media
Celebrations of International Day of Families:
The International Day of Families is celebrated in different ways across the globe. In some communities, public officials arrange for discussions and discourses on the various challenges faced by families in said communities. Some countries plan their activities and events organised based on the particular theme set by the United Nations. Individuals also choose to celebrate this day by spending time with their families. While this day is considered important by governments across the globe, the day is not a public holiday.
The theme of International Day of Families 2020:
Families in Development: Copenhagen & Beijing + 25 is the theme for 2020. In the year 1995, the conferences of Beijing and Copenhagen proposed the importance of family and its role in our social development and agreed to specify its worldwide observance as an initiative for the well-being of all individuals in the family. In the year 2020 UN in this regard has projected this theme to stress the importance of our families and how they mean to us especially in the context of pandemic COVID-19. A family has a worth of foundation-pillar in the development of society as social laws and norms are the anticipated form of family bonding and strength. UN through this theme has attempted to re-visualize the seized development of families, lacking which has dispersed our society apart. It is a family that can repatriate our sorrows and soothes our pain and does not allow us to sit back in the time of trial.
Family is a source to overcome social and individual fears, a family is the part and parcel of our joys and distress, the family helps us come out of economic burdens as every member of the family suffers during poverty and economic failures.
