World Week of Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
World Week of Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples is held on May 25. Also International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. 
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In the UN Charter, a Non-Self-Governing Territory is defined as a Territory “whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government.”
The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 14 December 1960. From 1960 to 2002, 54 Territories attained self-government. At present, there are 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories remaining (2022).
The UN General Assembly, by its resolution 54/91 of 6 December 1999, requested the annual observance of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
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