Zero Discrimination Day!
“Discrimination is a violation of human rights and should not be ignored. Everyone should have the opportunity to live life with respect and dignity. ”
8th UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Zero Discrimination Day is celebrated annually on March 1 by a UN decision since 2014. The agency was initiated by the leaders of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS.
Discrimination is an infringement. In the modern concept, this word is used to denote the infringement of a person’s rights on various grounds (social, religious, racial, national, sexual, etc.) and can be carried out in different ways. This is evidenced by the historical experience through which absolutely all modern states have passed. Their gradation varies from a banal unfair attitude to insult and restriction of rights even at the state level.
And if the discrimination cultivated by individual states in relation to certain categories of their citizens is still subject to regulation by international law and international organizations, then discrimination at the household level is still strong, and cannot be fully controlled even in developed democratic countries.
Unfortunately, discrimination continues to affect the lives of millions of people around the world. The slogan “Give a helping hand!” Reveals the goals and tasks of those who care about today’s date, and therefore the fate of other people. But the motto of the Day “Zero Discrimination” in 2016, which sounded like “Be Yourself”, was addressed to those who somehow suffered from discrimination or continue to experience its manifestations. In 2019, UNAIDS on this Day stresses the need for action to repeal discriminatory laws.
The new holiday calls on modern society to tolerate other people, regardless of their racial, national, religious, gender, age, affiliation to a particular social group, regardless of their political and other views and beliefs. He recalls the right of everyone to a full life with dignity. Therefore, the task of the Day is the “absolute” for those who instituted this holiday, and for those who sincerely participate in the implementation of projects within its framework – the achievement of that state of society when discrimination within it is reduced to zero, that is, disappears completely.
Every person has the right to a full and decent life, regardless of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, color, height, weight, profession, education and belief.