CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -2022 Theme: End racism. Build peace. Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.

Detailed explanation-2: -The General Assembly, in its resolution 57/129, designated 29 May as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. This is the date when in 1948 the first UN peacekeeping mission named the “United Nations Truce Supervision Organization", or UNTSO, began operations in Palestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May, offers a chance to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian personnel’s invaluable contribution to the work of the Organization and to honour nearly 4, 200 peacekeepers who have lost their lives serving under the UN flag since 1948, including 135 last year.

Detailed explanation-4: -UN peacekeeping forces aid nations in negotiating the perilous transition from war to peace. To carry out several missions approved by the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the UN General Assembly, it deploys soldiers and police from all over the world and combines them with civilian peacekeepers.