Zero Discrimination Day March 1st

Zero Discrimination Day is an annual day recognised on 1 March each year by the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations. The day seeks to promote equality before the law and in practice across all member countries of the UN. The day was first marked on 1 March 2014, and was launched by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé on 27 February of that year with a significant event in Beijing.

In February 2017, UNAIDS urged individuals to "make some noise around zero discrimination, to speak out and prevent discrimination from standing in the way of achieving ambitions, goals, and dreams."

The day is notably observed by organisations such as UNAIDS that fight discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. "HIV related stigma and discrimination is pervasive and exists in almost every part of the world including our Liberia", as stated by Dr. Ivan F. Camanor, Chairman of the National AIDS Commission of Liberia. The UN Development Programme also paid homage in 2017 to LGBTI individuals with HIV/AIDS who face discrimination.

Campaigners in India have utilised this day to voice opposition against laws that heighten discrimination against the LGBTI community, particularly during the former campaign to repeal the law (Indian Penal Code, s377) that criminalised homosexuality in that country, before it was overturned by the Indian Supreme Court in September 2018.

In 2015, Armenian Americans in California staged a 'die-in' on Zero Discrimination Day to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide.