International Day of Non-Violence

The International Day of Non-Violence (English: International day of non -violence ) is celebrated every year on October 2.

History

The Memorial was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 June 2007 in Resolution A/RES/61/271.

The day was chosen because the leader of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi, who had raised his non-violence and non-violent resistance and civil disobedience to the principle in the political debate, was born on 2 October 1869.

The Indian Foreign Minister Anand Sharma, who had introduced the resolution in the General Assembly, said that the idea for the introduction of Remembrance was created at a conference, which took place in January 2007 in New Delhi and which deals with Gandhi's thinking in the 21st century had ( Peace, non-Violence and Empowerment - Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century ).