Johannesburg, June 10 (PTI) An international conference in South Africa pondered upon the issues that can be addressed using the principles of non-violence advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King.
The three-day Gandhi-King-Mandela International Conference on the African continent that concluded on Friday agreed to continue networking and taking forward the message of non-violence by putting pressure on institutions such as the UN and the African Union to step up their efforts in terms of human rights, David Gengen, the chairperson of the Pietermaritzburg Gandhi Foundation, which hosted the conference in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said.
“The year 2023 is the 130th anniversary of the eviction of young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi from a train at Pietermaritzburg Station (which sparked his path to developing Satyagraha and leading the struggle against oppression and discrimination in both South Africa and India). It is also the 120th anniversary of ‘Indian Opinion’, the first newspaper established by Gandhi in 1903,” Gengen said, explaining the significance of this year's conference on the three iconic leaders of the last century.
