1995 was declared the United Nations Year for Tolerance by the United Nations General Assembly, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was responsible for the lead organisation of the year. The Year of Tolerance was proclaimed on the 20th December 1993. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ...

The idea and practice of tolerance was widely promoted in schools in many member states. Tolerance was held to be an 'endangered virtue' in many parts of the world, particularly those who were under racial and religious wars, such as those in Bosnia and Rwanda. UNESCO said that five key planks were required to overcome intolerance: law, education, access to information, individual awareness and local solutions. Tolerance is thus a political, legal and moral duty to protect and preserve human rights. Tolerance is a social, cultural and religious term applied to the collective and individual practice of not persecuting those who may believe, behave or act in ways of which one may not approve. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ... Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... ACCESS has multiple meanings: ACCESS: Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services CJAL is an educational television station in Edmonton, Alberta branded as ACCESS, Albertas provincial educational broadcasting service. ... Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... In biological psychology, awareness describes an animals perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

The International Day of Tolerance is now celebrated on November 16 every year, in recognition of the Paris Declaration which was signed that day in 1995 by 185 member states.

External links

• [original resolution in 1993 in PDF (http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N94/078/69/PDF/N9407869.pdf?OpenElement|The)]
• [Global Quest for Tolerance-also in French and Spanish (http://www.unesco.org/tolerance/global.htm|A)]
• [Principles of Tolerance (http://www.unesco.org/tolerance/declaeng.htm|The)]
• [Report of the Year of Tolerance (http://www.unesco.org/tolerance/report.htm|Final)]