International Day of Sign Languages 2020

International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated on 23 September every year along with International Week of the Deaf. The choice of 23 September is the same date that the World Federation of the Deaf was established in 1951.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The International Day of Sign Languages was first celebrated in 2018 as part of the International Week of the Deaf.

WFD is an advocacy organisation with the mission of preservation of sign languages which is a pre-requisite to the realisation of the human rights of deaf people.

In 2020, the World Federation of the Deaf is issuing a Global Leaders Challenge.

This challenge aims to promote the use of sign languages by local, national, and global leaders in partnership with national associations of deaf people in each country, as well as other deaf-led organisations.