{"id":3097,"date":"2014-04-27T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:48:07","slug":"interchange-uganda-celebrates-international-day-of-sport-for-development-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"InterChange Uganda Celebrates International Day of Sport for Development and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3099\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3099 \" alt=\"The Interchange peace team (under 14) posing for a photo with their coach before the match started\" src=\"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_team-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_team-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_team.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Interchange peace team (under 14) posing for a photo with their coach before the match started<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Submitted by Issa Kirarira, Chairman, InterChange Uganda<\/p>\n<p>6 April 2014 &#8211; This year we celebrate the first-ever International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.<\/p>\n<p>We at the United Nations know that sport is a universal language, uniting groups and nations across divides.<\/p>\n<p>Sport empowers youth, promotes good health and deepens UN values such as equality, mutual respect and fair play.<\/p>\n<p>Sport helps us in spreading messages of peace, driving social change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3100\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_playsoccer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3100 \" alt=\"UNday_playsoccer\" src=\"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_playsoccer-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_playsoccer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UNday_playsoccer.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The under 14 years facing each other in the field.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This International Day will highlight the potential of sport to advance human rights, eliminate barriers and promote global solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>To reach our goals, we need all players on the field: governments, international organizations, the sport sector, civil society, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>I urge all global citizens to join this growing movement and become part of our team to harness the power of sport to build a better world for all.<\/p>\n<p>Please also access a writeup about <a href=\"http:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lutengo-Soccer-Day.pdf\">Lutengo Soccer Day<\/a>, written by Ikibesi Omoding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Issa Kirarira, Chairman, InterChange Uganda 6 April 2014 &#8211; This year we celebrate the first-ever International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. We at the United Nations know that sport is a universal language, uniting groups and nations across divides. Sport empowers youth, promotes good health and deepens UN values such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[62,32,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interchange4peace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}