Global Family Day, (One Day of Peace and Sharing Every January First) grew out of the United Nations millennium celebration, "One Day of Peace," January 1 2000. The idea itself is difficult to pin down. Many grassroots efforts around the world had independently sprung up to target this milestone as a day for peace, and worked separately to prevail on local governments and the U.N. to establish such a day.

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  • Global Family Day, (One Day of Peace and Sharing Every January First) grew out of the United Nations millennium celebration, "One Day of Peace," January 1 2000. The idea itself is difficult to pin down. Many grassroots efforts around the world had independently sprung up to target this milestone as a day for peace, and worked separately to prevail on local governments and the U.N. to establish such a day. As a result, nearly 140 nations were poised to respond to the November 1997 declaration of the U.N. General Assembly that the first year of the new millennium should launch an "International Decade for the Culture of Peace & Nonviolence for the Children of the World" which would be ushered in by "One Day of Peace. " Finally, in November 1999, the U.N. issued a formal invitation for world participation. As the independent grassroots organizations around the world joined the effort, one notable outcome was a special ceremony between Israeli and Palestinian families, at a refugee camp in Nablus. Later that year, the United States Congress followed the U.N. initiative and unanimously voted to establish the first day of every year as a special time of peace and sharing. (S. Con. Res. 138). In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly established it as a recurring annual event, also recommending that all Member states recognize the new holiday (UNRes. 56/2) To date more than 20 heads of state and many ambassadors have endorsed what has now become known as Global Family Day.
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  • Global Family Day, (One Day of Peace and Sharing Every January First) grew out of the United Nations millennium celebration, "One Day of Peace," January 1 2000. The idea itself is difficult to pin down. Many grassroots efforts around the world had independently sprung up to target this milestone as a day for peace, and worked separately to prevail on local governments and the U.N. to establish such a day.
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  • Global Family Day
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