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URL:https://glade.org/events/international-day-of-non-violence-2024-10-02/
SUMMARY:International Day of Non-Violence
DESCRIPTION:The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October\
 , the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gand
 hi Jayanti.\n\nIn January 2004\, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had t
 aken a proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teac
 her in Paris teaching international students to the World Social Forum in 
 Bombay. The idea gradually attracted the interest of some leaders of India
 'sCongress Party ("Ahimsa Finds Teen Voice"\, The Telegraph\, Calcutta) un
 til a Satyagraha Conference resolution in New Delhi in January 2007 initia
 ted by Sonia Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu called upon the United Nat
 ions to adopt the idea.[citation needed]\n\nOn 15 June 2007 the United Nat
 ions General Assembly voted to establish 2 October as the International Da
 y of Non-Violence.[1] The resolution by the General Assembly asks all memb
 ers of the UN system to commemorate 2 October in "an appropriate manner an
 d disseminate the message of non-violence\, including through education an
 d public awareness." [2]\n\nThe United Nations Postal Administration in Ne
 w York City prepared a special cachet to commemorate this event\, followin
 g a request from the Indian Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of India t
 o the UN. The boxed pictorial cachet design was prepared by the UNPA and w
 as limited to cancellation at UNPA's NY location (not Geneva and Vienna). 
 The UNPA has indicated that all outgoing UNPA mail between October 2 and 3
 1 carried the cachet. Information on various philatelic material carrying 
 this cachet is summarized at a website dedicated to Gandhi philately and c
 an be accessed here.\n\n[button link="/tag/international-day-of-non-violen
 ce/" type="icon" icon="search"] Continue to related posts![/button]
CATEGORIES:International Day
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