The International Day of Peace is being observed around the world today. The day is observed at the call of the United Nations.
The United Nations General Assembly decided to celebrate September 21 every year as the International Day of Peace in 1981. Since then, every year, member states of the United Nations have been celebrating this day.
The theme of this year’s International Peace Day is ‘Action for Peace: Our Ambition for the Global Goals’, calling for the fulfillment of individual and collective responsibility to achieve the sustainable development goals through promotion of peace.
September 21 is also observed in the world as Alzheimer’s Day with the objective of raising awareness and challenging the stigma around Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. The theme for Day this year is “Never too early, never too late”.
The International Day of Peace is being observed across the country today.
The UN General Assembly had passed the motion in 1981 to mark the International Day of Peace on the third Tuesday of September, the day UN General Assembly began. The first International Day of Peace was observed in September 1982. Later in 2002, September 21 was fixed officially by the UNGA as the International Day of Peace.
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has already come into force. As many as 86 countries have become signatories to it while 55 countries ratified it.
Nepal is however yet to ratify it, according to General Secretary of Human Rights and Peace Society, Ram Krishna Baral.
