World Drowning Prevention Day

The United Nations General Assembly established the Resolution A/RES/75/273 on 28 April 2021 designating July 25th as World Drowning Prevention Day . Through this global event, we remember lives lost due to drowning and aim to increase knowledge on safety in and around water . Drowning doesn't have a single cause, or a single solution. The General Assembly,  Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its th...

 In April 2021 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on global drowning prevention, recognizing the scale and impact of drowning globally , and calling for coordinated multisectoral action to prevent drowning – a leading cause of injury-related death and disability worldwide . The resolution invites all Member States and their partners to observe World Drowning Prevention Day annually on 25 July in accordance with national priorities, ‘ …in order to raise awareness of the importance of drowning prevention and the need for urgent coordinated multisectoral action to improve water safety, with the aim of reducing preventable deaths ’. And in May 2023 the 76th World Health Assembly adopted its first-ever resolution on drowning prevention, requesting governments and their partners, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), to accelerate action on drowning prevention through 2029. The resolution was sponsored by the Governments of Banglades...