World Suicide Prevention Day

world suicide prevention day 2015

Ques: World Suicide Prevention Day is celebrated-

a. 8 September
b. 10 September
c. 11 September
d. 6 September

Ans: c

Related facts:

  • September 10, 2015, the World Suicide Prevention Day was celebrated globally.
  • The international theme of World Suicide Prevention Day was ‘Preventing Suicide: Reaching Out and Saving Lives’.
  • It is known that to prevent the crime as suicide, World Suicide Prevention Day was celebrated on September 10, 2003 to spread awareness against the act of suicide.
  • According to the recently released World Health Organization (WHO) report: ‘Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative’, over 800,000 people die by suicide across the world each year.

Reference:

https://www.iasp.info/wspd/
http://wspd.org.au/
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/131056/1/9789241564779_eng.pdf