{"id":298256,"date":"2025-07-14T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=298256"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:03:42","slug":"day-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/day-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 July has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of Hope to be celebrated each year as a moment of light in dark times.\u00a0 Hope is a powerful force for positive change and for a brighter future.\u00a0 Hope is an important element in developing a culture of peace.\u00a0 Hope helps us to overcome the serious challenges which face the world society.<\/p>\n

The Association of World Citizens was among those working with progressive governments so that on 4 March 2025, the U.N. General Assembly voted to set 12 July each year as the Day of Hope.\u00a0 Hope must, of course, be translated into action.\u00a0 However, at this time when many felt hopeless in the light of armed violence and wide-spread violations of human rights, a day devoted to hope agreed to by such a large number of countries is a sign of common efforts for progress.<\/p>\n

Hope can be encouraged by programs in schools and cultural centers – a possibility for creative action by all of us.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 July has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of Hope to be celebrated each year as a moment of light in dark times.\u00a0 Hope is a powerful force for positive change and for a brighter future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3519,884,124],"class_list":["post-298256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-international-day-of-hope","tag-unga","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298257,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298256\/revisions\/298257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}