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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Refugee vaccination, tackling systemic racism and Tigray

15 July 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, if you’re a refugee, how do you get a COVID vaccine? We hear about the challenges and what’s being done to overcome them. Also, the UN rights chief leads a call for an end to systemic racism at the Human Rights Council...These stories and more, in this week’s UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva podcast, with Daniel Johnson, and Solange Behoteguy Cortes.

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A farmer harvests apples in Afghanistan.
World Bank/Rumi Consultancy

News in Brief 12 July 2021

12 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Conflict, climate change and coronavirus behind skyrocketing hunger
  • Schools still shuttered in 19 countries due to COVID-19
  • UN rights chief's action call on structural racism
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3'27"
People protest in London in support of Black Lives Matter. June 2020.
Unsplash/James Eades

Rights experts condemn UK racism report attempting to ‘normalize white supremacy’

19 April 2021
Human Rights

UN independent human rights experts on Monday denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified historical facts, and could even fuel racism and racial discrimination.

A close-up from the memorial on the legacy of slavery.
UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

‘Racist lie’ must end, UN chief warns on Remembrance Day for enslaved people 

25 March 2021
Human Rights

Although the transatlantic slave trade ended more than two centuries ago, “the ideas of white supremacy that underpinned it remain alive”, the UN chief said on Thursday, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 

In Brooklyn, New York, protesters peacefully demonstrate against police violence, following the death of George Floyd, in May 2020..
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

No ‘fix’ to police violence, without tackling scourge in society, says rights chief

19 March 2021
Human Rights

The Human Rights Council embarked on a discussion over police violence against people of African descent on Friday, with a warning from UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet that “brutality and discrimination against people of African descent continue to occur”.

A protest in New York City, against racism and police violence, following the death of George Floyd (file photo),
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence

19 June 2020
Human Rights

The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the Human Rights Council decided on Friday. The resolution – decided unanimously without a vote - follows a rare Urgent Debate in the Council earlier in the week, requested by the African group of nations, following the death of George Floyd in the US state of Minnesota.

George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

‘I am my brother’s keeper’, Philonise Floyd tells UN rights body, in impassioned plea for racial justice

17 June 2020
Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday heard powerful testimony from the brother of George Floyd, whose death,  captured on video, while a police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes in Minneapolis, has sparked worldwide protest.

An impromptu memorial for George Floyd, who was killed after being restrained by police, has been set up in Harlem, New York City.
Hazel Plunkett

Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials of African descent issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism

14 June 2020
Human Rights

A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African descent, have put their names to a personal and hard-hitting statement published on Friday, expressing their outrage at pervasive and systemic racism, highlighting the need to ‘go beyond and do more’ than just offering condemnation.