The occasion of International Deaf Week

The International Week of Deaf Persons is celebrated worldwide, culminating in the International Day of Deaf Persons (last Sunday of September).

This annual celebration originated on September 23, 1951, in Italy, during the Constituent Assembly of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This year, International Deaf Week is being celebrated from September 21 to 27 under the theme "Declaring the Human Rights of Deaf People".

Likewise, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the recognition of national sign languages ​​as full languages ​​equal to other languages ​​are being celebrated.

During the week, on September 23rd, the "International Day of Sign Languages" is celebrated, a day proclaimed in Resolution 72/161, adopted at the UN General Assembly on December 19, 2017, in honor of the day the World Federation of the Deaf was founded, and celebrated for the first time in 2018.

September 30th is celebrated as "International Translators and Interpreters Day." The date commemorates the patron saint of the profession, Saint Jerome – the Holy Translator, author of the Latin translation of the Bible, as well as other translation works during the Middle Ages, the period in which he lived.

During this period, global deaf movements develop various activities to promote the well-being of their members and to raise societal awareness of the need to respect and observe the rights of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, as well as to promote the participation of this social group in the process of social and economic development.

Thus, various activities will be carried out throughout the country to commemorate the event.