{"id":80867,"date":"2016-11-16T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/?p=80867"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:26:54","slug":"statement-on-the-international-day-for-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/2016\/11\/16\/statement-on-the-international-day-for-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on the International Day for Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Statement by the President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly on the International Day for Tolerance, observed on 16 November<\/h2>\n<h3>16 November 2016<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/09\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵGA_logo_71_lowres.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63424 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/09\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵGA_logo_71_lowres.png\" alt=\"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵGA_logo_71_lowres\" width=\"136\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>16 November 2016, Marrakech<\/strong>: On the occasion of the observance of the International Day for Tolerance, the President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, on the International Day for Tolerance, we are reminded that every human life must be treated with equal respect and dignity, as underpinned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mutual understanding among the people and cultures that create the social fabric of our world is essential to ending violence and achieving harmony,\u201d said President Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Federal Research and Methodological Center for Tolerance Psychology and Education (Tolerance Center) of Russia on winning the 2016 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by the President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly on the International Day for Tolerance, observed on 16 November 16 November 2016 16 November 2016, Marrakech: On the occasion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":63424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[526,3180,4263,3656,4259,436],"class_list":["post-80867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements","tag-human-rights","tag-latest-news","tag-madanjeet-singh-prize","tag-non-violence","tag-tolerance","tag-unesco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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