CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Board recommended to the UNESCO 36th session of the General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day at its 36th session and that this day is celebrated by UNESCO on 13 February, the anniversary of the day that the United Nations established the United Nations Radio in 1946.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Board recommended to the UNESCO 36th session of the General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day at its 36th session and that this day is celebrated by UNESCO on 13 February, the anniversary of the day that the United Nations established the United Nations Radio in 1946.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amidst ongoing conflict in Ukraine, protests in Iran, and confrontation over Taiwan, among other global instabilities, the theme for the 12th edition of World Radio Day on Monday Feb. 13 is “Radio and Peace.”

Detailed explanation-4: -jpg. United Nations Radio was established on 13 February 1946. The date was, therefore, a natural choice to celebrate this mass medium. World Radio Day was proclaimed at UNESCO’s General Conference in 2011, following an initial proposal by Spain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as an International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day (WRD). Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse.