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Credit: UN Photo/ Loey Felipe. Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, briefs journalists, 30 October 2019.

UN Efforts to Address Racism

 

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News Articles

  • The Virus of Racism: An Enduring Dilemma for Humanity
  • Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence
  • ‘I am my brother’s keeper’, Philonise Floyd tells UN rights body, in impassioned plea for racial justice

 

Statements by UN officials

  • UN Deputy Secretary-General’s statement to UN Human Rights Council’s urgent debate on racially inspired human rights violations (17 June 2020)
  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ statement to UN Human Rights Council’s urgent debate on racially inspired human rights violations (17 June 2020)
  • Joint statement by senior leaders in the UN on pervasive and systemic racism (14 June 2020)
  • Letter from UN Secretary-General to staff on the plague of racism (9 June 2020)

 

 

KEY DOCUMENTS

  • General Assembly Resolutions on the Permanent Memorial and the Outreach Programme (2007)
  • General Assembly Resolutions on the Permanent Memorial and the Outreach Programme (Archive)
  • Secretary-General’s Reports on the Programme of educational outreach on the transatlantic slave trade and slavery

RELATED PROGRAMMES, OFFICES AND ASSOCIATIONS

  • Routes of Enslaved Peoples (UNESCO)
  • International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024
  • United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust

HUMAN RIGHTS

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

  • Breaking the Silence (UNESCO)
  • Legacies of Slavery: A Resource Book for Managers of Sites and Itineraries of Memory
  • Multimedia Resources
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