International Day Of Non-Violence
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International Day of Non-Violence
The International Day of Non-Violenceis observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gandhi Jayanti.
In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had takena proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teacher in Paris teaching international students to the World Social Forum in Bombay. The idea graduallyattracted the interest of some leaders of India's Congress Party ("Ahimsa Finds Teen Voice", The Telegraph, Calcutta) until a Satyagraha Conference resolution in New Delhi in January2007 initiated by Sonia Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu called upon the United Nations to adopt the idea.[citation needed]
On 15 June 2007 the United Nations General Assemblyvoted to establish 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence.[1] The resolution by the General Assembly asks all members of the UN system to commemorate 2 October in "anappropriate manner and disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness." [2]
The United Nations Postal Administration in New YorkCity prepared a special cachet to commemorate this event, following a request from the Indian Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN. The boxed pictorial cachetdesign was prepared by the UNPA and was limited to cancellation at UNPA's NY location (not Geneva and Vienna). The UNPA has indicated that all outgoing UNPA mail between October 2and 31 carried the cachet. Information on various philatelic materials carrying this cachet is summarized at a website dedicated to Gandhi philately and can be accessed here.
International Day of Non-Violence
The International Day of Non-Violenceis observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gandhi Jayanti.
In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had takena proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teacher in Paris teaching international students to the World Social Forum in Bombay. The idea graduallyattracted the interest of some leaders of India's Congress Party ("Ahimsa Finds Teen Voice", The Telegraph, Calcutta) until a Satyagraha Conference resolution in New Delhi in January2007 initiated by Sonia Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu called upon the United Nations to adopt the idea.[citation needed]
On 15 June 2007 the United Nations General Assemblyvoted to establish 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence.[1] The resolution by the General Assembly asks all members of the UN system to commemorate 2 October in "anappropriate manner and disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness." [2]
The United Nations Postal Administration in New YorkCity prepared a special cachet to commemorate this event, following a request from the Indian Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN. The boxed pictorial cachetdesign was prepared by the UNPA and was limited to cancellation at UNPA's NY location (not Geneva and Vienna). The UNPA has indicated that all outgoing UNPA mail between October 2and 31 carried the cachet. Information on various philatelic materials carrying this cachet is summarized at a website dedicated to Gandhi philately and can be accessed here.
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