International Human Solidarity Day is commemorated every year on 20 December. This reminds everyone of working towards creating a world free of poverty, hunger, and inequality.
Every individual can work for this noble cause by being in solidarity to bring change for all.
Let’s join today to celebrate International Human Solidarity Day, learn how we all can differ in order to make the world more embracing and supportive for a world community for all, and let us join to make a difference.
Together, unity will be our strength.
History and Background of International Human Solidarity Day
International Human Solidarity Day comes every December 20. This year, it was established in 2005 because the United Nations declared that there should be more understanding towards human solidarity.
On this day, people are urged across the world to support the struggle for poverty eradication through globalization.
This spread awareness in the United Nations with a call towards unity and co-ordination across the borders to conquer challenges that face the human race.
In this view, being recognized as people who hold shared responsibility teaches that there is a collective place one can improve in making this world.
The call of the day is through such actions: helping those who are at lower levels in society and unifying themselves for a greater future to be built upon. It is a call to shared responsibility and mutual support around the world.
The Importance of Solidarity in Today’s World
Solidarity, in itself, means being united as well as offering support each other, more so, in bad times. Indeed, it has never had such a greater relevance with the present times. International issues-poverty, climatic alteration, political and health situations-mean the world calls for stronger communities that bond together.
United people break barriers along the lines of race, creed, or even nationality to achieve a unified goal. Solidarity promotes social justice by offering an opportunity to the most vulnerable section of society to gain control over resources and opportunities that should have been destined for them.
And if done together with compassion, then humanity can bring about peace, harmony, and equality so no one is left behind in the building of our world. In short, solidarity is a useful tool toward making our society more inclusive and egalitarian.
Themes and Objectives of International Human Solidarity Day
International Human Solidarity Day falls on 20th December of each year. Important themes and goals include building global harmony and cooperation.
Themes
- Social Justice promotion: this is a necessity of having the reduction in poverty and inequalities as well as excluding some from societal activities to promote more cohesion through collective work
- Global Cooperation Promotion: work with one another across geographical borders to reduce global threats of climate, health concerns and economic gaps.
- Unity in Diversity: The day promotes acceptance of diversities and celebration of cultural variety while it emphasizes that what unifies everyone is the unity.
Objectives:
- Awareness: To enable people to be aware that they should work together in common good and achieve sustainability.
- Action: To inspire a collective effort by individuals and societies to tackle global problems.
- Support the Vulnerable: Emphasis on the most disadvantaged that they are not left behind in the pursuit of progress.
International Human Solidarity Day thus aligns with such themes and objectives that ask people to come together and create a more just and inclusive world.
The Role of Governments and Organizations in Promoting Solidarity
Governments and bodies are consequently very important institutions in advancing solidarity at a national level as well as international levels.
- The government is in charge of policies that focus on social inclusion, equality, and respect for human rights. Since they provide access to educational facilities, health care, and economic activities, they lessen the differences and bring along social justice. The government also interacts with other states and other international bodies towards solving universal issues such as climate change, refugee disasters, and poverty.
- Through the activities of advocacy and campaigns for awareness, organizations such as government and non-government encourage solidarity. They have various humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and education activities, mostly for vulnerable communities. Organization sets a collaborative and partnership structure with diverse groups and means coming together to achieve mutual goals.
Governments and organizations need each other as this helps in building and growing the culture of shared and worldwide responsibility.
How Individuals Can Contribute to Building Solidarity
People can make much difference with small actions in their daily lives to strengthen solidarity. Here are ways that can make a difference:
- Show Empathy: The practice of understanding or supporting people going through trials like poverty, discrimination builds a sense of unity within society.
- Volunteer Work: Devote time or effort for purposes such as education, healthcare, disaster relief, which can save vulnerable people in society.
- Support local and global causes by donating to, raising money for, or promoting causes that are devoted to eradicating inequality and advocating for social justice among its members.
- Support Human Rights: Speak up when there is injustice toward other individuals, and promote policy which ensures equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and promotes social inclusion among many.
- Be environmentally friendly by engaging in practices that will minimize waste and help reduce your carbon footprint for global cooperation on the environmental disaster of climate change.
Kindness, standing up to injustice, and contributing to something greater than oneself are all forms of creating a more inclusive, peaceful, and interdependent world.
Conclusion
It’s through this unity that forces communities and people towards fighting today’s challenges together as communities and as a nation.
Whether to defend the poor, uphold human rights, or make any small difference in world issues, like climate change action, any good deed about solidarity shapes the collective future.
Both the governments and organizations take responsibility and try to bridge this gap through unity and cooperation.
We can build a better, more compassionate world when no one is left behind if we promote social justice, equality, and peace.
Solidarity will empower us toward a better future in terms of how we make that world a better place to live.
