November 2024

All Month

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in November to showcase the rich culture of the native people of this land as well as honor the Native American and Indigenous People who have suffered injustices.

1-2

Nov

Día de los Muertos

This celebration of life and death in Mexico is celebrated through costumes, parades, and offerings at gravesites or on ofrendas of loved ones.

9-15

Nov

Pushkar Fair

The Pushkar Fair (also called the Pushkar Camel Fair or locally as Kartik Mela or Pushkar ka Mela) is one of India's largest camel, horse and cattle fairs. Apart from the trading of livestock, it is an important pilgrimage season for Hindus to the Pushkar lake.

11

Nov

Veterans Day

Veterans Day is an American holiday that pays tribute to those who have fought for our country.

15

Nov

Loy Krathong

A Thai festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand and in nearby countries with significant South Western Tai cultures. The name could be translated as "to float ritual vessel or lamp," and comes from the tradition of making krathong or buoyant, decorated baskets, which are then floated on a river.

15

Nov

Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurpurab, also known as Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav, celebrates the birth of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. One of the most celebrated and important Sikh gurus and the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak Dev is highly revered by the Sikh community.

17-23

Nov

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is an annual program where people come together across the country to draw attention to the problems of hunger and homelessness.

20

Nov

Transgender Day of Remembrance

This day was started to memorialize Transgender people who have been lost to hate and violence as a result of transphobia - and was started in 1998 after the murder of a Transgender woman named Rita Hester.

25

Nov

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

This years’ UN campaign, UNITE! Activism to End Violence against Women & Girls, will aim to mobilize all society to become activists for the prevention of violence against women, to stand in solidarity with women’s rights activists and to support feminist movements around the world to resist the rollback on women’s rights and calling for a world free from VAWG.

28

Nov

National Day of Mourning

An annual demonstration, held on the fourth Thursday in November, that aims to educate the public about Native Americans in the United States, notably the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States; dispel myths surrounding the Thanksgiving story in the United States; and raise awareness toward historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American tribes.

29

Nov

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

On this day every year, the United Nations urges immediate action in an effort to grant Palestinians sovereignty and independence from the Israeli Occupation. As the international community commemorates this day, it continues to call on Israel to provide Palestinians with their human rights according to the UN General Assembly. 

29

Nov

Native American Heritage Day

Native American Heritage Day is a civil holiday observed on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.