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New Delhi students celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day

Updated on: 18 July,2016 01:42 PM IST  | 
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Students from New Delhi school, on Monday paid tribute to South African leader Nelson Mandela on his birth anniversary

New Delhi students celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day

Students from New Delhi school, on Monday paid tribute to South African leader Nelson Mandela on his birth anniversary.


Nelson MandelaMadiba Tujhe Salaam says the placard. All pics/PTI


Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela's birthday. The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010.


Nelson Mandela
School students at the event

For 67 years Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity — as a human rights lawyer, a prisoner of conscience, an international peacemaker and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

The former South African President, who was awarded Bharat Ratna and the Nobel Peace Prize, passed away in 2013 at the age of 95.

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