US President Joe Biden has ordered relevant government agencies to implement comprehensive policies to change the structure that is creating inequality, with the aim of eliminating racial discrimination, which the new administration has set as an important issue. It was.

President Biden signed four documents at the White House on the 26th, including an executive order to eliminate racial discrimination.



In this, the Biden administration ordered the federal government's housing policy, which has been criticized for promoting racial discrimination, to be revised, and will sign contracts for prisons run by private companies because it is not guaranteed to be safe. I'm not going to update it.



In addition, in response to widespread discrimination against Asians due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Justice was ordered to prevent "hate crimes" and harassment based on prejudice aimed at Asians. I did.



President Biden said, "I believe this country can change. I promise that all government agencies will be involved and will move forward to eliminate structural racism," said all relevant government agencies. He emphasized that we will work together as one.



In the United States, protests spread nationwide in May last year after a black man died in the Midwestern Minnesota after being held down by a police officer.



President Biden has made a promise to eliminate racial discrimination and has positioned it as an important issue for the administration, and it will be questioned whether it can change the structure of a society that creates inequality. ..

Discriminatory behavior against Asians 2583 reports

One of four documents signed by President Biden on the 26th ordered the Department of Justice and the Ministry of Health to take steps to eliminate the increased discrimination against Asians associated with the spread of the new coronavirus. It is a document.



According to Stop AAPI Hate, an organization that monitors discrimination against Asians, 2583 discriminatory behaviors were reported between March and August last year when the outbreak of the new coronavirus spread in the United States. That is.



Of these, 71% were verbal harassment such as discriminatory remarks, and 9% were physically injured such as assault.



In addition, 40% of Asians who reported the damage were Chinese or Chinese, 16% were Korean or Korean, and 7% were Japanese or Japanese.



In New York, the number of "hate crimes" targeting Asians has increased, and in August of last year, a dedicated countermeasure team was set up within the New York Police Department to strengthen the crackdown on discrimination against Asians.