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Dates of International Day of Conscience

2023 United Nations Wednesday, April 5thInternational Day of Conscience

2022 United Nations Tuesday, April 5thInternational Day of Conscience

2021 United Nations Monday, April 5thInternational Day of Conscience

2020 United Nations Sunday, April 5thInternational Day of Conscience

2019 United Nations Friday, April 5thInternational Day of Conscience

Summary

A United Nations day that promotes a Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience.

The General Assembly of the United Nations agreed in 2019 to declare April 5th the International Day of Conscience, with the aim of creating conditions of stability and well-being and relationships based on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction based on race, sex, language or religion.

The concept of a culture of peace emerged from the International Congress on Peace in the Minds of Men, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Côte d'Ivoire in July 1989. Since then the promotion of a culture of peace has increasingly been seen as a worthwhile objective of the international community. The evolving concept has inspired activities at so many levels and in so many regions with the full participation of civil society that the culture of peace is gradually taking on the characteristics of a global movement.

On this day, the UN invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as the private sector and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to build the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience in accordance with the culture and other appropriate circumstances or customs of their local, national and regional communities, including through quality education and public awareness-raising activities, thereby fostering sustainable development.

The International Day is celebrated by many governments, including the Czech Republic, Bahrain, Australia, Canada, Jamaica, and New Zealand. Public seminars are being organised in universities, colleges and schools where the purpose of the day is discussed. Electronic media broadcasts programmes in favour of the day and analysts write columns in newspapers.

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