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The International Day of Peace, also officially known as World Peace Day, is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace , and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access.
He established Peace One Day. The United Nations had already declared the third Tuesday of September the International Day of Peace, [2] Peace One Day aimed to resolve the confusion on which calendar day it fell, and on 7 September 2001, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution formally establishing the UN ...
The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the day as a day of preventing violence and a cease-fire. The celebration of this day is recognized by many nations and people.
Peace. Love. Two words that are often thrown around without much thought. But it is more prevalent now, than at any other time in my life, that what the world needs now is more peace and love.
"I Am a Catalan" is the name given to a short speech given by cellist and humanist Pau Casals in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 24 October 1971. Casals was in front of the assembly to present the " Hymn of the United Nations " composed by himself and to receive the U.N. Peace Medal in recognition of his stance on peace ...
There are numerous United Nations declarations and resolutions on the importance of peace. [1] Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, dedicated the International Day of Peace 2013 to peace education in an effort to focus minds and financing on the preeminence of peace education as the means to bring about a culture of peace.
In 1994, following a decade of professional acting, Gilley started a film making company, P.U.R.E. Productions. In 1999, he set out to document his efforts to create an annual Peace Day. To this end he founded the non-profit organisation Peace One Day. In September 2001 as a result of Gilley's efforts, a General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, establishing 21 ...
Furthermore, in 2005 UNOY held the first Dutch Building Peace Skills Training, celebrated the International Day of Peace for the first time and sent their Youth Advocacy Team to visit UN in New York. 2006 and 2007 marked a great deal of organizational changes at UNOY, and the network developed from a loose network into a Membership-based one.