{"id":9086,"date":"2020-07-20T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2020-07-20T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:43:58","slug":"nelson-mandela-international-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/nelson-mandela-international-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela International Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.one.un.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nelson_Mandela_Day_2019_heroes-EN-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela International Day - UN India\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Nelson Mandela International Day is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>About:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Day is a global call to action that celebrates the idea that each individual has the power to transform the world, the ability to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Nelson Mandela:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nelson Mandela (1918 \u2013 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country\u2019s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 He also served as Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 He was awarded Bharat Ratna (in 1990) and Nobel Peace Prize (in 1993).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 United Nations has recognized the period from 2019 to 2028 as the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Nelson Mandela Prize 2020:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize aims to recognize the achievements of those who dedicated their lives to the service of humanity as guided by the UN principles, while honouring Mandela\u2019s legacy of reconciliation, political transition and social transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is awarded every five years and was first awarded in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 No current staff member of any organization of the United Nations system shall be eligible for the Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 Nelson Mandela International Day is an annual international day in honour of Nelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9087,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions\/9087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}