Every year numerous celebrations are organized worldwide to remind and unite the communities around universal aspirations in the objective to advocate peace and security in the world as well as exert increasing efforts in dialogue among cultures, education for all, respect for human dignity, freedom of expression, gender equality for sustainable development. Additionally, UNESCO commemorates historic events and anniversaries of eminent personalities, who helped shape the civilization we share by contributing to the mutual enrichment of cultures for universal understanding and peace.
The anniversary must concern personalities of genuinely universal stature, nominated posthumously only and events of universal scope or of regional significance, indisputably known outside the borders of their own country, in order to reflect the ideals, values, cultural diversity and universality of the Organization. From the moment babies are born, they respond to the world around them. Their reactions — being calmed by a parent’s embrace or startled by a loud sound — are examples of normal infant development.
