The 24th October, each year is the International United Nations Day.
This followed a declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in
1947 which designated 24th of October, the anniversary of the Charter of
the United Nations, as United Nations Day, by proclaiming that the day
would be instrumental in making people aware and it shall be devoted in
making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the
United Nations and to gain their support for its work. By a further
resolution that of the United Nations Resolution 2782 adopted in 1971 by
the United Nations General Assembly, it was declared that the United
Nations Day would henceforth be celebrated as an international holiday
and it was recommended that it will be maintained as a public holiday by
all United Nations member states. The event is instituted primarily to
disseminate to people worldwide the aims and accomplishment of the
United Nations Organization. The United Nations Day is in-fact part of a
longer United Nations Week which spans from the 20th to the 26th of
October.
The United Nations Day involves celebratory events such as food
festivals showcasing food from around the world and cultural concerts.
In-fact the United Nations Day concert is an important part of the day's
celebrations at the United Nations Headquarters. The concert for the
year 2011 was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Mongolia. It
featured the traditional "long song" and "throat-singing". The
previously mentioned oral music forms have henceforth been included in
the UNESOC's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Cultural diversity is the drive-force behind greater development, a step
towards leading a more enriching and wholesome intellectual, emotional,
moral and spiritual life. It is an important economic growth. Cultural
diversity is thus a huge asset and a grand alleviator of poverty and a
potent precursor of sustainable development. Moreover a larger and more
receptive acceptance and recognition of cultural diversity particularly
through innovative use of media are conducive to a better understanding,
cooperation and dialogue between nations and varying civilizations and
culture.
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2001 and its
following dialogues has become the core mandate of the UNESCO. And in
celebrating the United Nations Day, the world is encouraged to celebrate
these core principles of inter-cultural understanding and synthesis and
a larger and more acute sense of being in the world, of belonging to a
family, the largest family, the universe.
The aim of celebrating such a day, the United Nations Day, is the
essential celebration of the values which this organization spells
forth-the principles of humanity, unity, and world peace. Coming into
effect after the two world wars and the cold war the United Nations was
an attempt to salvage humanity from the scourge of war and the wrath of
destruction-most importantly to ensure that the human world would never
be subject to such instances of horror again. The promise has since been
shouldered by the organization and many efforts to alleviate the human
condition have been attempted.
World Development Information Day is observed on
October 24, 2016. In 1972, the United Nations General Assembly decided
to institute a World Development Information Day coinciding with United
Nations Day on 24 October. The General Assembly had the object of
drawing the attention of world public-opinion each year to development
problems and the necessity of strengthening international co-operation
to solve them.
In recent years many events have interpreted the title of the day slightly differently. These have concentrated on the role that modern information-technologies, such as the Internet and mobile telephones can play in alerting people and finding solutions to problems of trade and development. One of the specific aims of World Development Information Day was to inform and motivate young people and this change may help to further this ai.
In recent years many events have interpreted the title of the day slightly differently. These have concentrated on the role that modern information-technologies, such as the Internet and mobile telephones can play in alerting people and finding solutions to problems of trade and development. One of the specific aims of World Development Information Day was to inform and motivate young people and this change may help to further this ai.
