{"id":17264,"date":"2023-09-16T22:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17264"},"modified":"2023-09-16T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:35:09","slug":"international-day-of-democracy-16-09-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/16-09-2023\/international-day-of-democracy-16-09-2023","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The International Day of Democracy is celebrated around the world<strong> on 15 September each year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was established through a resolution passed by the <strong>UN General Assembly in 2007<\/strong>, encouraging governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The International Day is an <strong>opportunity to review the state of democracy around the world. <\/strong>Each year highlights a specific theme.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Theme 2023<\/strong>: \u201cEmpowering the next generation,\u201d focuses on young people\u2019s essential role in advancing democracy and ensuring that their voices are included in the decisions that have a profound impact on their world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/52047\/OPS\/GPDBOORJC.1+GT9BOOS76.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS2\/Polity In News About Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17266,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17264\/revisions\/17266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}