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The United Nations designates 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence

In 2007 the UN General Assembly designated Gandhi’s birthday, 2 October, as the International Day of Non-Violence. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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In 2007 the UN General Assembly designated Gandhi’s birthday, 2 October, as the International Day of Non-Violence. He did not file the resolution. Official saint-making can teach a method and can also freeze a halo that hides Chauri Chaura, Poona, and the ashram file.

Context

A UN day is reception.

Mahatma Gandhi is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A calendar day is not the Salt March.

A calendar day is not the Salt March.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    He designed, walked, fasted, wrote, or negotiated; Congress, ashram, family, or opponents shared the act.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe United Nations designates 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 15 June 2007 · verified

    A calendar day is not the Salt March.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford MLK Institute — Mohandas K. GandhiMartin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.United Nations — International Day of Non-ViolenceUnited Nations · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Research and Education Institute, Stanford).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMahatma Gandhi
  2. contributed toFactThe United Nations designates 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). The United Nations designates 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-un-non-violence-day-2007

https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-un-non-violence-day-2007

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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