UNSG Spokesperson Dujarric calls for actions on systemic racism

United Nations, Jun 29 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary General (UNSG) Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Monday echoed a report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet who called for pressing actions on systemic racism.

June 29, 2021
07:46

Bachelet straightaway urged UN member States to take actions to crack down on racism, Dujarric said.

In addition, UNSG´s report claimed that global mobilization to demand racial justice has forced a reckoning, which has long been delayed.

As highlighted by Bachelet, nations must take actions and responses from Government and society, through action plans with adequate resources and concrete measures, with a significant participation and representation of people of African extraction.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office received in June 2020 – shortly after George Floyd´s death- the order to prepare an in-depth report on racism.

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