International Awards

International Awards

Abel Prize
The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians.

Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to people who have completed outstanding research, invented ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or made an outstanding contribution to society in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, medicine or physiology and economics.They are widely regarded as the supreme commendation in their respective subject areas.
Those honored with a Prize are known as Nobel Laureates.

Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Booker Prize, is one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland in the English language.

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction 
The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction is awarded by the editors of The Paris Review for what they deem to be the best short story published in the magazine in a given year. No applications are accepted. The winner gets $1,000.

Person of the Year
Person of the Year is an annual issue of U.S. newsmagazine TIME that features a profile on the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."

Ramon Magsaysay Award
Every year the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation gives away prizes to Asian individuals and organizations for achieving excellence in their respective fields. The awards are given in six categories.
* Government Service
* Public Service
* Community Leadership
* Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication arts
* Peace and International Understanding
* Emergent Leadership

The prize was created to commemorate Ramon Magsaysay, the late president of the Philippines.


Clio Awards
The Clio Awards are given to reward creative excellence in advertising and design. They are awarded in a number of fields, including: TV, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Integrated Campaign, Innovative Media, Design, Internet, Content & Contact, and Student work.
The awards are named for the Greek Muse of history Clio and were first given in 1959.

Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest, and the title for the winner of the contest, founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills.

Miss World
The Miss World pageant is an international beauty pageant founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951.

Bafta Award 
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.

The Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1939, is considered one of the world's most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in the month of May) in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.

Academy Awards (OSCARS)
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world.

Webby Awards
Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites". The awards have been given out since 1996. There is also a second set of awards called the People's Voice Awards for the same categories which are given by popular vote.

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards, commonly abbreviated as the Grammys or GRAMMYs ), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States.

Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards, sponsored by Billboard magazine and held annually in December, is one of three major United States contemporary music awards shows presented each year.

ICC Awards
The ICC Awards is a set of sports awards for cricket. The awards recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months. The awards are sanctioned and administered by the International Cricket Council.

International Organizations - Associations

Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN )
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political and economic organization of countries located in Southeast Asia. ASEAN was formed on August 8, 1967 by the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, as a display of solidarity against Communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within their own borders. Following the Bali Summit of 1976, the organization embarked on a programme of economic cooperation, which floundered in the mid-1980's only to be revived around a 1991 Thai proposal for a regional "free trade area". The countries meet annually.

Members: Brunei,Cambodia,Indonesia,Laos,Malaysia,Myanmar,Philippines,Singapore ,Thailand ,Vietnam.


World Trade Organization (WTO)
The World Trade Organization is an international, multilateral organization, which sets the rules for the global trading system and resolves disputes between its member states; all of whom are signatories to its approximately 30 agreements. WTO headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland. Pascal Lamy is the current Director-General taking over from the previous Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi on September 1, 2005. As of November 7, 2006, there are 149 members in the organization with Vietnam being the latest to join.

Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
Total Member COuntries : 149
Secretary-General : Pascal Lamy
Formation : 1995


European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 (27 as of 1st January 2007) independent, democratic member states. The European Union is the world's largest confederation of independent states, established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty).

Member states : Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, Greenland, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia,Bulgaria, Romania.


The Commonwealth of Nations (CN)
usually known as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, the majority of which are former colonies of the United Kingdom.
It was once known as the British Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth, and some still call it by that name, either for historical reasons or to distinguish it from the other commonwealths around the world


Head of the Commonwealth : Queen Elizabeth II
Secretary-General : Don McKinnon (since 1999)
Headquarters : London, England
Number of Member States : 53


Confederation of Indian Industry
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry managed organisation, playing a proactive role in India’s development process. The organisation works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India, partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes. The confederation is headquartered in New Delhi.

CII was established in 1895. It is India’s premier business association, with a direct membership of over 5800 organisations from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs and indirect membership of over 95,000 companies from around 325 national and regional sectoral associations.



Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-e) is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 360,000 members in around 175 countries.



International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by observing exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering financial and technical assistance when requested. Its headquarters are located in Washington, D.C.



Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of those developed countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. It originated in 1948 as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), led by Frenchman Robert Marjolin, to help administer the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Later its membership was extended to non-European states, and in 1961 it was reformed into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.



South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the largest regional organization in the world, covering approximately 1.47 billion people. SAARC is an economic and political organization of eight countires in Southern Asia. The organization was established on December 8, 1985 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan. Afghanistan was accepted as the eighth member of SAARC on November 13, 2005.


World Bank Group
The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes of economic development and eliminating poverty. The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, where the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference that led to their establishment took place (1 July-22 July 1944). Commencing operations on 25 June 1946, it approved its first loan on 9 May 1947 ($250m to France for postwar reconstruction, in real terms the largest loan issued by the Bank to date).
Its five agencies are:

* International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
* International Finance Corporation (IFC)
* International Development Association (IDA)
* Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
* International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)


World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Historically, WHO inherited much of the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization (HO), which had been an agency of the League of Nations. The WHO was established by the UN on 7 April 1948. The Director-General Elect is Dr. Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun. She takes up her official duties on 4 January 2007. Dr Anders Nordström, of Sweden, continues as Acting Director-General until then.

Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
Membership : 193 member states
Formation : 7 April 1948

International Observations-Years

International Observations-Years

* 1959/1960 - World Refugee Year
* 1961 - International Health and Medical Research Year
* 1965 - International Cooperation Year
* 1967 - International Tourist Year
* 1968 - International Year for Human Rights
* 1970 - International Education Year
* 1971 - International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
* 1974 - World Population Year
* 1975 - International Women's Year
* 1978/1979 - International Anti-Apartheid Year
* 1979 - International Year of the Child
* 1981 - International Year of Disabled Persons
* 1982 - International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions against South Africa
* 1983 - World Communications Year
* 1984 - Year of Women in South Africa
* 1985 - Year of the United Nations
* 1985 - International Youth Year
* 1986 - International Year of Peace
* 1987 - International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
* 1990 - International Literacy Year
* 1992 - International Space Year
* 1993 - International Year of the World's Indigenous People
* 1994 - International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
* 1994 - International Year of the Family
* 1995 - World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of Victims of the Second World War
* 1995 - United Nations Year for Tolerance
* 1996 - International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
* 1998 - International Year of the Ocean
* 1999 - International Year of Older Persons
* 2000 - International Year of Thanksgiving
* 2000 - International Year for the Culture of Peace
* 2001 - International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
* 2001 - International Year of Volunteers
* 2001 - United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
* 2002 - International Year of Ecotourism
* 2002 - International Year of Mountains
* 2002 - United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
* 2003 - International Year of Freshwater
* 2003 - European Disability Year
* 2004 - International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
* 2004 - International Year of Rice
* 2005 - International Year for Sport and Physical Education
* 2005 - International Year of Microcredit
* 2005 - World Year of Physics (declared by IUPAP)
* 2006 - International Year of Deserts and Desertification , recognized by the UN
* 2007 - (International) Year of the Dolphin - (http://www.yod2007.org) by the United Nations and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)

International Observations - Days

International Observations - Days

January

* January 1 - Global Family Day--formerly One Day of Peace and Sharing, recognized by the UN
* January 6 - World day for War orphans - intiated by (S.O.S Enfants En Detresse - www.soseed.org and AIDS & War Orphans International)
* January 27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February

* February 12 - Darwin Day
* February 21 - International Mother Language Day, recognized by the UN


March

* March 8 - United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace, recognized by the UN
* March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, recognized by the UN
* March 22 - World Day for Water, recognized by the UN
* March 23 - World Meteorological Day, recognized by the UN
* March 24 - World Tuberculosis Day, recognized by the UN
* March 27 - World Theatre Day

April

* April 7 - World Health Day, recognized by the UN
* April 22 - Earth Day
* April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day, recognized by the UN
* April 25 - Africa Malaria Day
* April 26 - World Intellectual Property Day, recognized by the UN
* April 29 - World Dance Day

May

* May 1 - May Day
* May 3 - World Press Freedom Day, recognized by the UN
* May 4 - International Firefighters' Day
* May 12 - International Nurses Day
* May 15 - International Day of Families, recognized by the UN
* May 17 - World Telecommunication Day, recognized by the UN
* May 21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, recognized by the UN
* May 22 - International Day for Biological Diversity, recognized by the UN
* May 29 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, recognized by the UN
* May 31 - World No Tobacco Day, recognized by the UN
* 1st Tuesday of May - World Asthma Day
* 2nd Saturday of May - World Fair Trade Day

June

* June 1 - International Children's Day
* June 4 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, recognized by the UN
* June 5 - World Environment Day, recognized by the UN
* June 8 - World Brain Tumour Day
* June 8 - World Ocean Day
* June 12 - World Day against Child Labour
* June 14 - World Blood Donation Day
* June 17 - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, recognized by the UN
* June 20 - World Refugee Day, recognized by the UN
* June 21 - World Music Day
* June 23 - United Nations Public Service Day, recognized by the UN
* June 26 - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, recognized by the UN
* June 26 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, recognized by the UN


July

* 1st Saturday of July - International Day of Cooperatives, recognized by the UN
* July 11 - World Population Day, recognized by the UN
* July 29 - International day for socio-cultural diversity and the fight against positive discrimination

August

* August 9 - International Day of the World's Indigenous People, recognized by the UN
* August 12 - International Youth Day, recognized by the UN
* August 23 - International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition, recognized by the UN

September

* September 8 - International Literacy Day, recognized by the UN
* September 16 - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, recognized by the UN
* September 21 - International Day of Peace, recognized by the UN, World Alzheimer's Day
* September 22 - (World) Car Free Day(s)
* September 25 - International Grab Hand Day. Not Recognised by UN, but only those in the GIS Industry, and all associated IT Disciplines.
* September 26 - European Day of Languages
* September 27 - World Tourism Day
* 4th week of September - (International) Peace Week
* During last week of September - World Maritime Day, recognized by the UN


October

* First Monday of October - World Habitat Day
* October 1 - International Day of Older Persons, recognized by the UN
* October 1 - World Vegetarian Day
* October 4 - World Animal Day
* October 5 - World Teachers' Day
* Second Wednesday of October - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
* October 9 - World Post Day
* October 10 - World Mental Health Day, recognized by the UN
* October 16 - World Food Day, recognized by the UN
* October 17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, recognized by the UN
* October 24 - United Nations Day, recognized by the UN
* October 24 - World Development Information Day, recognized by the UN


November

* November 1 - World Vegan Day
* November 6 - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, recognized by the UN
* November 9 - International day for mobilization for the fight against terrorism and the terrorist movements in the world, created in 2005 by Stephen N. Kinuthia in memory of the victims of terrorist acts in the world - notably in Kenya, Tanzania, the USA, Egypt, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Palestine, Israel, Indonesia etc...]
* November 9 - World Inventor's Day
* November 16 - International Day for Tolerance, recognized by the UN
* November 17 - International Students Day
* November 19 - World Toilet Day
* November 20 - Africa Industrialization Day, recognized by the UN
* November 20 - Universal Children's Day, recognized by the UN
* November 21 - World Television Day, recognized by the UN
* November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, recognized by the UN
* November 29 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, recognized by the UN

December

* December 1 - World AIDS Day, recognized by the UN
* December 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, recognized by the UN
* December 3 - International Day of Disabled Persons, recognized by the UN
* December 5 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, recognized by the UN
* December 7 - International Civil Aviation Day, recognized by the UN
* December 10 - Human Rights Day, recognized by the UN
* December 18 - International Migrants Day, recognized by the UN
* December 20 - International Human Solidarity Day, recognized by the UN