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The
United Nations General Assembly
proclaimed 1995 the
United Nations Year for Tolerance
with
UNESCO
as the lead organization.
[1]
(It had invited the
Economic and Social Council
to consider the matter in an earlier session.)
[2]
The idea and practice of
tolerance
was widely promoted in schools in many member states. Tolerance was held to be an 'endangered virtue' in many parts of the world, particularly those who were under racial and religious wars, such as those in
Bosnia
and
Rwanda
. UNESCO said that five key planks were required to overcome intolerance:
law
,
education
, access to
information
, individual
awareness
and
local solutions
. Tolerance is thus a political, legal and moral duty to protect and preserve
human rights
.
The
International Day for Tolerance
is now celebrated on November 16 every year, in recognition of the Paris Declaration which was signed that day in 1995 by 185 member states.
In 1995, a press conference was held at the United Nations by 12-year-old Mark Semotiuk who launched his book
401 Goofy Jokes for Kids
which united kids from Ukraine, Canada and the United States, as one of the symbols for the United Nations Year for Tolerance.
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