September 21 : International Day of Peace The Luarca Declaration and the Human Right to Peace
The international day of peace was established 26 years ago in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly as an annual observance of global non-violence and ceasefire. Every year the United Nations and its specialized agencies remind the world that peace is the highest good, peace with justice. On 21 September 2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rang the Peace Bell at UN headquarters in New York in the company of UN Messengers of Peace. In Geneva a round table…