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21 March 2015 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Click on a thumbnail above to share an image with your friends. Ask them what they see – is there more than meets the eye?*
Racism, xenophobia and intolerance are problems prevalent in
all societies. Each and every one of us plays a role in either contributing to or breaking down racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO FIGHT RACISM?
Spread the word
Visit Fight Racism on Facebook to share ideas for combatting racism in your community.
Send a message that racism is unacceptable. Download a postcard and send it to your friends.
Share this page with your social networks and ask what others are doing to fight racism.
Get involved
Tell us what you are doing to combat racism via Twitter using #FightRacism
Take a stand against racism in your community. Join a group advocating for the rights of racial or other minorities in your own community and volunteer to help, including through online volunteering.
Learn more
Seek different perspectives through reading the writings of authors of other races or ethnicity. Read real life stories about overcoming racial discrimination.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge on human rights and discrimination and to celebrate the human rights defenders who have fought for the rights of others.
Check out the UN’s global action plan to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
Download United against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance[1.5 MB] containing the outcome documents of the Durban conference and follow-up meetings.
*Source: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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More Respect, Less Criminalization for Migrant Workers, UN Human Rights Expert Urges
‘US should respond to public demands for greater police accountability – United Nations
Eric Garner, Michael Brown Cases Spark ‘Legitimate Concerns’ About US Policing – UN Rights Experts
Washington DC Police ‘Mishandle’ Sexual Assault Cases
Canada: Violence, Sexual Assault By Police Officers against Indigenous Women – Report
2015 Human Wrongs Watch
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples
The moment you utter the word ‘minority’, that means you are keeping score, and thus, are just as racist as the ones you rail against.
Try this old ‘on-the-fly’ test from the 1980′s. If all three answers are the ‘same race’ as yourself, chances are 99% you are a ‘racist’ at some inner level, and won’t admit it:
1. What race is your primary care doctor (this is your MD physician, if you have taken the time to shop around and choose one of your own free will. In today’s HMO/PPO/ACA world, chances are you go to who you were told to, but in the day, this was NOT the case)?
2. If you attend regular church, is your pastor and/or the predominance of the congregation your same race? (again, in our changing anti-god secular world, you can substitute school or most-likely, workplace of preference for this one as well)
3. If you are seriously committed in a relationship, or are married or have been married, was your spouse the same race as you? (this one needs no explanation)
If you answered ‘YES’ to all three primary questions, chances are you are most-likely a racist of some amount. Counter to this point, if you answered ‘NO’ to all these questions, then chances are you are trying to ‘counter-correct’ for inner perceived racism so strongly, that most of ‘minimum bias’ would see you as a ‘reverse racist’ if they spoke to you for only a few minutes of time.
Try this test on a few of your acquaintances and see if it doesn’t hold up. What you learn from it will scare you.