The International Day of Families is celebrated on May 15 each year to remembering the importance of families and the work started during the International Year of Families.
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The United Nation General Assembly proclaimed the International Year of the Families in its resolution 44/82 of 9 December, 1989. The General Assembly in 1993 decided in a resolution to observe 15 May every year as The International Day of Families.
The main aim of reasserting these goals is to showcase the determination of the United Nations to encourage people for better living standards and social progress of families worldwide.
The day focuses to modify economic and social structures that affect the stability and structure of family units in various parts of the world.
Under economic distress poverty deepens, stress increases at times of uncertainty that may result against women and children violence.
