International Day for Tolerance
The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for
Tolerance is annually observed on November 16 to educate people about the need
for tolerance in society and to help them understand the negative effects of
intolerance.
What do people do?
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The
International Day for Tolerance is a time for people to learn about respecting
and recognizing the rights and beliefs of others. It is also a time of
reflection and debate on the negative effects of intolerance. Live discussions
and debates take place across the world on this day, focusing on how various
forms of injustice, oppression, racism and unfair discrimination have a
negative impact on society.
Many educators
use the theme of this day to help students in classrooms or in lecture theatres
understand issues centered on tolerance, human rights and non-violence. These
issues are also found in text books, lesson material and other educational
resources used for this event. The UN Chronicle Online Education also features
articles about tolerance. Information on the day is disseminated through
flyers, posters, news articles and broadcasts, and other promotional material
to raise people’s awareness about the importance of tolerance. Other activities
include essays, dialogues and story-telling of people’s personal accounts of
intolerance and how it affects their lives.
Human rights
activists also use this day as an opportunity to speak out on human rights
laws, especially with regard to banning and punishing hate crimes and
discrimination against minorities. In the workplace, special training programs,
talks, or messages from workplace leaders about the importance of tolerance are
utilized on this day.
Today William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was born, a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues". Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. He loved this folk musical form and brought his own transforming touch to it.
ReplyDeleteI love the movie "Gone with the Wind" and today was born William Clark Gable an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Later movies included Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.[
ReplyDeleteIn 1996, the UN General Assembly invited UN Member States to observe the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November, with activities directed towards both educational establishments and the wider public.
ReplyDeleteThis action followed on the United Nations Year for Tolerance, 1995, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 at the initiative of UNESCO, as outlined in the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance and Follow-up Plan of Action for the Year.
The 2005 World Summit Outcome document furthered the commitment of Heads of State and Government to advance human welfare, freedom and progress everywhere, as well as to encourage tolerance, respect, dialogue and cooperation among different cultures, civilizations and peoples.
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907– September 9, 1997),known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals, notably for the Marx Brothers. One play and one musical that he wrote won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: You Can't Take It With You (1937, with Moss Hart), and Of Thee I Sing (1932, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin). He also won the Tony Award as a Director, for the musical Guys and Dolls.
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