Proclamation establishing July 25th as 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...