Worldwide March for Peace and Nonviolence
The World March for Peace and Nonviolence was an initiative of "World Without War", an international organization that has campaigned for pacifism and nonviolence since 1995. It is avowedly part of the Humanist Movement .
The project of the world march was launched in early 2008 and was supported by hundreds of organizations and personalities from the fields of art, music, politics, literature, sport and the like. a. supported.
Among the most prominent supporters included the Nobel Peace José Ramos-Horta , the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho , Desmond Tutu , Jimmy Carter , Adolfo Pérez Esquivel , Mairead Corrigan and Rigoberta Menchú , writers Noam Chomsky , Eduardo Galeano , Jean Ziegler and Isabel Allende , the musicians Lou Reed , Juanes , Bryan Adams , Ornette Coleman , Yoko Ono , Noa , Konstantin Wecker and Andreas Vollenweider , the conductors Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta , the film actors Viggo Mortensen , Penélope Cruz and Julie Christie , the Queen Rania of Jordan , the then presidents of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia, East Timor and Croatia, and many others.
The march began on October 2nd, 2009, marking the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, in Wellington , New Zealand . Within three months, the peace march passed 400 cities on five continents, including the German capital Berlin on November 6th and 7th, 2009 . The march ended on the evening of January 2, 2010 in Punta de Vacas , near the Aconcaguas , in the Argentine Andes . 15,000 people from all over the world took part in the final rally. The march aimed to create awareness of nonviolence around the world. Specific demands of the march were "complete nuclear disarmament, an end to all wars, a withdrawal of all troops from occupied territories and the overcoming of all forms of violence".
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Individual evidence
- ↑ World without Wars and Violence → About us (accessed December 18, 2017)
- ↑ Worldwide March for Peace and Nonviolence www.die-anstifter.de (accessed on January 3, 2010).