Monday 26 January 2015

PEACE DAY

30 th  January 2015


 WHY  do  we celebrate it every year  

o   Mahatma  Gandhi   was killed   on 30thJanuary  in  1948.

o   He was the leader  of the Indian  Independence movement,   employing  Nonviolence  and Pacifism

o   He  inspired   movements for civil rights  and freedom across the world

Vocabulary
- leader  (líder)
- civil right ( derechos civiles )
- freedom ( libertad)






PEACEFUL   MEN / WOMEN     in the  XX century

Nobel Peace  Prize

o   Martin Luther King (Georgia, The USA/ born in 1929/ died  in 1968, he was shot )
o   Dalai Lama ( Spiritual leader of Tibet – Asia )
o   Nelson Mandela  (South Africa )
o   Rigoberta Menchú  ( Guatemala , Central America)
o   Mother Teresa  ( Calcuta, in India )

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

 Kailash Satyarthi

 Malala Yousafzai


For their  struggle  against  the  suppression  of children and young people  and    for  the right  of  all children  to  education

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