{"id":345060,"date":"2025-07-18T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=345060"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:09:36","slug":"statement-un-sg-on-nelson-mandela-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/statement-un-sg-on-nelson-mandela-day\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: UN SG on Nelson Mandela Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, raises his fist in the air while addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid in the General Assembly Hall. Photo:UNIC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nelson Mandela\u2019s extraordinary life showed how one person can transform oppression, struggle and subjugation into reconciliation, social justice and unity.<\/p>\n

Just as Madiba\u2019s life was a triumph of the human spirit, his legacy is a call to rekindle our global commitment to peace, justice and human dignity.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme reminds us that the power to end poverty and inequality is in all our hands.<\/p>\n

Mandela believed in the power of collective, grassroots action. He knew that ordinary people could bend the arc of history, and that lasting change started not in capitals and boardrooms, but in neighbourhoods and communities.<\/p>\n

Mandela\u2019s life of service and progress continues to inspire our own efforts at the United Nations, as we celebrate our 80th anniversary.<\/p>\n

On this important day, and every day, let us all be guided by Madiba\u2019s lifelong commitment to freedom, justice, equality and the rights that belong to every person on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela\u2019s extraordinary life showed how one person can transform oppression, struggle and subjugation into reconciliation, social justice and unity. 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