NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 21, 2020, hundreds of thousands of people
around the world will participate in Global Dignity Day, an annual
celebration organized by international non-profit Global
Dignity.
Global Dignity Day encourages everyone, everywhere to understand
what dignity is—the inherent and equal worth of every single
person—and how they can work for and protect the dignity of others
through actions big and small.
Interactive Global Dignity Day events take place in classrooms,
refugee camps, community groups, workplaces and virtually, to
encourage more understanding, compassion and love as antidotes to
hate and intolerance. People all over the world are also encouraged
to participate on social media by sharing their dignity story using
the hashtag #mydignitystory.
Amongst this year's Global Dignity Day events are Dignity
Workshops with thousands of students from the Beaconhouse School
System across Pakistan, in
classrooms in Romania,
Portugal and Ukraine, and with Rohingya children living in
refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Students at Costa Rica's EARTH
University will participate in their first-ever virtual Global
Dignity Day with musical performances, dignity stories and
workshops. Global Dignity's Philippines chapter is organizing a face mask
and soap donation drive in Manila.
Global Dignity Day will mark the launch of Dignity : RESET, a
series of events and activities organized by Global Dignity to
amplify the increasing call for a world where the dignity of every
person is recognized, valued and honored. Dignity : RESET will
continue through 2021 and will include an inaugural Dignity Award,
an expansion of Global Dignity's presence from 80 to 100 countries,
and additional free learning resources for the hundreds of millions
of children and young people without access to distance and virtual
learning because of the global pandemic and school closures.
"2020 is a year we will never forget. Like an X-ray on every
society, it has exposed deep inequities and injustices—from
education and income disparities to systemic racism," says
Cynthia Guyer, Global Dignity
Executive Director. "At the core of these challenges is a failure
to acknowledge, respect and protect the dignity of every human
life. A deeper understanding and commitment to dignity—every
person's equal value—is critical to breaking down legacies of hate,
prejudice and violence, and to building communities rooted in
justice and compassion."
In addition to Global Dignity Day events, Global Dignity offers
year-round interactive Dignity Workshops for schools, designed to
equip young people with the skills they need to become positive
change makers in their communities; as well as for corporations
interested in creating more equitable and enlightened workplaces.
Global Dignity's free, open-source teaching and learning resources
are available at globaldignity.org.
ABOUT GLOBAL DIGNITY
Global Dignity is a non-profit organization dedicated to
building a world where compassion, understanding and love triumph
over intolerance, injustice and inequality. Through its annual
Global Dignity Month in October and year-round Dignity Workshops,
Global Dignity engages more than one million young people in 80
countries each year. The organization's newest initiative, Dignity
in the Workplace, helps broaden organizations' and employees'
understanding of dignity in order to transform workplace culture in
the business, non-profit, civil society and academic sectors.
Contact:
Alanna O'Donnell
alanna.odonnell@globaldignity.org
+1 609.356.2316