International Men’s Day – Tuesday, 19th November 2024

International Men’s Day is a global awareness day for many issues that men face, including parental alienation, abuse, homelessness, suicide, and violence, celebrated annually on November 19th. The theme for 2024 is “Positive Male Role Models”

The objectives of celebrating an International Men’s Day are set out in ‘All the Six Pillars of International Men’s Day’…

1. Promoting positive male role models
   This includes everyday men who live honest, decent lives, not just sports stars and movie stars.
2. Celebrating men’s positive contributions
   This includes men’s contributions to society, family, community, marriage, child care, and the environment.
3. Focusing on men’s health and wellbeing
   This includes men’s social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
   
4. Highlighting discrimination against men
   This includes discrimination in social services, law, and social attitudes and expectations.
5. Improving gender relations and promoting gender equality
   This includes promoting gender equality for both men and women.
6. Creating a safer, better world
   This includes creating a world where people can be safe and reach their full potential.
   

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November is also Movember… The leading charity changing the face of men’s health: addressing mental health and suicide issues, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Movember first started in Melbourne, Australia in 2003 when two friends (Travis Garone and Luke Slattery) talked 30 of  their friends into growing a ‘Mo’ (moustache). They had been inspired by a friend’s mother who was fundraising for breast cancer, they decided to make the campaign about men’s health and prostate cancer.
By 2007, the campaign had grown internationally including the UK campaign with The Prostate Cancer Charity. There are now official campaigns in 21 countries around the world 🙂

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