{"id":66443,"date":"2014-04-06T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=66443"},"modified":"2014-04-06T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T00:05:42","slug":"un-secretary-general-message-for-international-day-of-sport-for-development-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=66443","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary General message for International Day of Sport for Development and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York, 6 April 2014 &#8211;<b><\/b>This year we celebrate the first-ever International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We at the United Nations know that sport is a universal language, uniting groups and nations across divides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sport empowers youth, promotes good health and deepens UN values such as equality, mutual respect and fair play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sport helps us in spreading messages of peace, driving social change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This International Day will highlight the potential of sport to advance human rights, eliminate barriers and promote global solidarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To reach our goals, we need all players on the field:\u00a0 governments, international organizations, the sport sector, civil society, and many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I urge all global citizens to join this growing movement and become part of our\u00a0 team to harness the power of sport to build a better world for all.<\/p>\n<p><i>United Nations<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":48372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751,824],"tags":[18474],"class_list":["post-66443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","category-sports","tag-international-day-of-sport-for-development-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}