Latest racial justice News

UN experts urge States to recognise and address legacy of slave trade
Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Concludes Its 31st Session
How a Failure to Understand Race Leads to Flawed Health Tech
Organizing can give tenants power to effect change
Thirtieth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to take place from 7 to 11 August 2023
Campaigning to end racism
Statement on France by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Whole-of-government leadership needed to address legacy of slavery and redefine policing, UN experts say: USA
PM Albanese sucking up to King Charles is beyond embarrassing
Press Conference by the Independent UN Expert Mechanism on Racism and Law Enforcement at the end of its visit to the United States
Independent Expert Mechanism on Racism and Law Enforcement to visit the United States
International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement – Visit to Sweden: A/HRC/54/CRP.1
High Commissioner urges pushback against intolerance, hatred, bigotry and violence: Racism
Addressing Harm must be part of celebrating Harmony
statement by the High Commissioner: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concrete action needed to end racial discrimination – UN Human Rights Chief
Human Right Committee Opens One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Session
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ITS 29th SESSION
Twenty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to take place from 20 to 24 February 2023
McIntosh S.E.E.D. preserves land and legacy with Black landowners in the US South
UN experts call for new approaches to policing in the United States following deaths of Keenan Anderson and Tyre Nichols
Study: Abortion Views Closely Tied to Views on Race, Religion
UN experts: Freedom of speech is not freedom to spread racial hatred on social media
Statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at organisational session of Human Rights Council
Statement on People of African Descent
Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens One Hundred and Eighth Session in Geneva
Parliamentarian Code of Conduct must reflect public values of integrity and respect
Children of African descent are not considered children at all, say UN experts
Sweden should step up efforts to fight systemic racism, UN Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice says after 5-day visit
Urgent need to respect human rights in all climate change action, say UN experts: COP27
Backlash to racial justice movements may boost risk of high BMI, obesity
Committee Against Torture Opens Seventy-Fifth Session in Geneva
Independent UN panel on racial justice and law enforcement to visit Sweden on its first country mission
Penn State to inventory, evaluate and enhance existing DEIB programs, efforts
Netball Australia and Hancock Prospecting sponsorship saga: Powerbrokers, not players, are to blame
End racism to advance health and other human rights says UN expert
Enhanced ID with Acting High Commissioner and International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality
UN report records piecemeal progress in combating systemic racism against people of African descent
Statement on negative impact of legacies of colonialism on enjoyment of human rights
International Day for People of African Descent
Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
‘Woke Up Call’: Australian Attitudes to and Perceptions of ‘Wokeness’
HRC Advisory Committee Concludes its 28th Session
Twenty-eighth session of Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to take place from 8
UN experts call for accountability in Melilla tragedy
UN experts: South Africa on precipice of explosive xenophobic violence