racism

Mutuma Ruteere.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Australian indigenous “disproportionally represented” in justice system

19 December 2016
General News

Indigenous people in Australia are “disproportionally represented” in the country’s criminal justice system according to a United Nations rights expert.

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Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai.
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Racism in US casts ‘dark shadow’ over rights to free assembly, association – UN expert

28 July 2016
The United States is struggling to live up to its ideals in the area of racial, social and economic inequality, which is negatively affecting the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, a United Nations human rights expert said today at the end of his first official fact-finding mission to the country.
Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in the case of the police shooting of Missouri teenager Michael Brown (24 November 2014).
Jacques Baudrier

UN condemns this week's deadly gun violence in US

8 July 2016
United Nations officials today spoke out against recent violence in the United States which has left several people dead, expressing both outrage and condemnation over the killings, and highlighting the need for more to be done to fight discrimination.
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Mutuma Ruteere.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Brexit shows need for politicians to stamp out racism says expert

28 June 2016
General News

Politicians have a responsibility in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union not to play on people’s fears over migration, causing racist and xenophobic sentiment and hate crimes.

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Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in the case of the police shooting of Missouri teenager Michael Brown (24 November 2014).
Jacques Baudrier

UN experts urge US to address legacies of the past, police impunity and ‘crisis of racial injustice’

29 January 2016
The legacy of slavery, post-Reconstruction ‘Jim Crow’ laws and racial subordination in the United States remains a “serious challenge” as there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations for people of African descent, a United Nations expert panel said today in Washington D.C., at the end of its second official visit.