Overview
- The 2025 observance emphasizes practical actions such as checkups, suicide‑prevention talks, mental‑health workshops and Movember campaigns focused on prostate and mental health.
- Organizers underscore data showing male suicide rates up to three times higher than women’s and average male life expectancy four to five years shorter.
- The modern observance was established on November 19, 1999, in Trinidad and Tobago by Jerome Teelucksingh, building on a 1992 proposal by Thomas Oaster, and later drew engagement from UNESCO, PAHO and WHO.
- Six guiding pillars frame the day’s agenda: promoting positive male role models, celebrating contributions, prioritizing health, improving gender relations, highlighting male‑specific discrimination and fostering safer communities.
- Coverage notes an ongoing debate over the day’s role in broader gender equality, and reports that some countries also mark a separate, more traditional men’s day on March 19 linked to St. Joseph.