{"id":9551,"date":"2021-07-18T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:04:56","slug":"the-heroes-are-those-who-make-peace-and-build-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9551","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The heroes are those who make peace and build.&#8221;- Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity \u2014 as a human rights lawyer, a prisoner of conscience, an international peacemaker and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2015 &#8211; the General Assembly decides to extend the scope of Nelson Mandela International Day to also be utilized in order to promote humane conditions of imprisonment, raise awareness about prisoners being a continuous part of society, and to value the work of prison staff as a social service of particular importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Assembly resolution\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/undocs.org\/A\/RES\/70\/175\">A\/RES\/70\/175<\/a>\u00a0not only adopted the revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, but also approved that they should be known as the &#8220;Nelson Mandela Rules&#8221; in order to honour the legacy of the late President of South Africa, who spent 27 years in prison in the course of his struggle referred to above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity \u2014 as a human rights lawyer, a prisoner of conscience, an international peacemaker and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa. December 2015 &#8211; the General Assembly decides to extend the scope of Nelson Mandela International Day to also be utilized in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions\/19124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}