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

Date: 2007

## The fact

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. Stored here as an official-image path that makes the documentary controversies harder to keep in public view, not as a finding that the UN committed a crime.

[Mahatma Gandhi](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official archival, ashram, or government pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: United Nations — International Day of Non-Violence (https://www.un.org/en/observances/non-violence-day; United Nations). Research and Education Institute, Stanford).

## Significance

A calendar day is not the Salt March. Do not back-date the UN to 1930. Do not treat a halo as evidence.

A calendar day is not the Salt March. Do not back-date the UN to 1930. Do not treat a halo as evidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Mahatma Gandhi: https://factrail.ai/people/mahatma-gandhi

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/gandhi-mohandas-k
- https://www.un.org/en/observances/non-violence-day

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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