section_path: Legacy/Global days that celebrate Gandhi
section_name: Global days that celebrate Gandhi
paragraph_text: Global days that celebrate Gandhi
  
  In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, as "the International Day of Nonviolence." First proposed by UNESCO in 1948, as the School Day of Nonviolence and Peace (DENIP in Spanish), 30 January is observed as the School Day of Nonviolence and Peace in schools of many countries. In countries with a Southern Hemisphere school calendar, it is observed on 30 March.