CHRDA Commemorates International Day Against Racial Discrimination
By A Correspondent CHRDA, On 21, 2021 joins the rest of the world in commemoration of the International Day Against Racial Discrimination. The day is celebrated this year on the theme “YOUTH STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM.” It engages the public through #FightRacism, which aims to foster a global culture of tolerance, equality and anti-discrimination and calls on each and every one of us to stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes. The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid "pass laws" in 1960. In 1979, the General Assembly adopted a programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. On that occasion, the General Assembly decided that a week of solidarity with the peoples struggling against racism and...