International Men's Day 2018: Top 5 Diseases Men Are More Prone To Than Women: Tips To Prevent Them
International Men's Day or IMD is celebrated on 19th November every year. The significant day was inaugurated by Thomas Oaster in the year 1992 and was formulated a year earlier. It was later on revived by Dr Jerome Teelucksingh, who was a history lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, in the year 1999. He chose to celebrate the day to mark his father's birth anniversary and celebrate how on that date in the year 1989 Trinidad and Tobago's soccer team had united the nation to qualify for the soccer world cup.
International Men's Day is now celebrated in more than seventy countries every year on November 19. Each year the day has a special theme. This year the theme for International Men's Day 2018 is positive male role models. International Men's Day is celebrated in a number of different ways. Public seminars, workshops, panel discussions, conferences, lectures, award ceremonies, art exhibitions, classroom activities are organized to promote the day. These various activities are held to bring attention to the day. The day focuses on issues related to men and encourages men to be positive male role models. All the more, it seeks to spread awareness regarding the various achievements and contributions that men have achieved in the past. These include their contributions to society, family, marriage and child care, and at the same time highlighting the discrimination against them.
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