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This week we are celebrating theInternational Day of Non-Violence.
TheInternational Day of Non-Violenceis observed on 2 October, the birthday ofMahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to inIndiaasGandhi Jayanti.
In January 2004, Iranian Neobel laureateShirin Ebadihad taken a proposal for an International Day ofNon-Violencefrom a Hindi teacher in Paris teaching international students to theWorld Social Forumin Bombay. The idea gradually attracted the interest of some leaders of India'sCongress Party("AhimsaFinds Teen Voice", The Telegraph, Calcutta) until a Satyagraha Conference resolution in New Delhi in January 2007 initiated bySonia Gandhiand ArchbishopDesmond Tutucalled upon the United Nations to adopt the idea.
On 15 June 2007 theUnited Nations General Assemblyvoted to establish 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence. The resolution by the General Assembly asks all members of the UN system to commemorate 2 October in "an appropriate manner and disseminate the message ofnon-violence, including through education and public awareness."
The United Nations Postal Administration in New York City 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 cachet design 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 2 and 31 carried the cachet. Information on various philatelic material carrying this cachet is summarized at a website dedicated to Gandhi philately and can be accessedhere.