{"id":182947,"date":"2019-03-25T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/?p=182947"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:31:45","slug":"commemoration-of-the-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/2019\/03\/25\/commemoration-of-the-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of The International Day For The Elimination of Racial Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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– As delivered –<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 25 March 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres,<\/p>\n Ms. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights,<\/p>\n Ms Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,<\/p>\n Mr Amir Noureddine, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,<\/p>\n Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,<\/p>\n Words are powerful. Words can kill.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are subhuman.\u201d \u201cYou are rats.\u201d \u201cYou are cockroaches to be exterminated.\u201d<\/p>\n These words framed some of the worst crimes in human history: slavery, the decimation of indigenous peoples, the Holocaust, Apartheid.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Excellencies,<\/p>\n The murder of 69 peaceful protestors in Sharpeville, South Africa on the 21st<\/sup> of March 1960 moved the General Assembly to create the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A few years later, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination came into force. It is now 50 years old.<\/p>\n The Convention has supported the fight against racism at the country level and internationally. We have more laws and tools to combat discrimination. But we have not managed to keep our promise of \u201cnever again\u201d.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_code _builder_version=”3.19.7″]\n\nStatement by H.E. Mrs. Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa Garc\u00e9s, President of the 73rd<\/sup> Session of the UN General Assembly<\/h3>\n
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