China News Agency, Geneva, October 2nd. The 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council is being held in Geneva. On October 1st, a general debate on anti-racism will be held. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Human Rights) Bachelet and many countries The representative condemned racism and racial discrimination and called on the international community to effectively protect the rights of people of African descent.
Bachelet expressed serious concern over the recurrence of police violence against people of African descent in some countries in recent days, and emphasized that relevant countries should bring those responsible to justice.
Bachelet said that people of African descent are still facing systemic racism and police violence, especially during the new crown pneumonia epidemic, they face the difficult situation of being marginalized, and called on relevant countries to face the root causes of racism, including colonialism and colonialism. The transatlantic slave trade has made combating racism a priority.
Russia pointed out the existence of systemic racism and police violence in the United States. The international community and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) should focus on the issue of racism in the United States; Iran condemned the brutal killing of George Floyd by the US police. U.S. racism is rooted in white supremacy and expansionism. U.S. unilateralism and bullying have seriously violated the basic human rights of people in sanctioned countries; Egypt is concerned about Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries discriminating against Muslims, burning mosques, spreading hate speech, and attacking refugee camps. And other human rights violations; Venezuela pointed out that people of African descent are currently facing various forms of discrimination in developed countries such as the United States.
Representatives of many NGOs condemned American racism, racial discrimination, and police violence. They expressed serious concerns about racial discrimination against Africans, Muslims, Asians and immigrants in the United States and other countries. They pointed out that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, some Western countries Discrimination against people of African descent and other minorities has further intensified. It is recommended that the United Nations Human Rights Council set up a special investigation committee to systematically investigate racial discrimination and police violence in the United States against people of African descent.
China, on behalf of Russia, Pakistan, Cuba, Iran and other countries with similar views, made a joint speech on the continuing occurrence of similar incidents in Western countries and Freud, the death of ethnic minorities due to racial discrimination and xenophobic violence, and the death rate of people of African descent during the epidemic It is much higher than its proportion of the population, immigrant children are forced to be separated from their parents, and the rights of indigenous people are not protected. We call on all parties to oppose the politicization and stigmatization of the epidemic, and urge politicians in relevant countries to abandon incitement to racial discrimination. Misconducts with xenophobia, blames, and deliberate splitting.
The representative of China also made a separate statement and pointed out that systemic racial discrimination, police violence, and social injustice are deeply entrenched in the United States, and racial discrimination and racist violent crimes have increased significantly. Politicians have politicized and stigmatized the new crown pneumonia epidemic and blamed other countries for groundless reasons. This shirks responsibility for their ineffective fight against the epidemic; nearly half of the Muslims in the UK believe that the government has adopted discriminatory practices against them. African and Asian groups face systemic discrimination in the fields of healthcare, education, employment, justice, etc.; a large number of Australian immigrants are detained in In offshore detention centers with poor conditions, the rights of indigenous people are systematically violated; discrimination and hate speech against Roma in the Czech Republic are widespread, and the Roma community is ostracized and stigmatized.
China expresses serious concern about racism and racial discrimination in the aforementioned countries, and urges relevant countries to immediately correct discriminatory practices and effectively protect the rights of minorities.
Call on the international community to unite in combating racial discrimination, racism, xenophobia and hate speech.
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