Durban II – A New Humanist guide before the event
April 22, 2009
Hatefest
We must prevent the UN being unravelled by bigotry and conflict, argues Ian Williams
New Humanist, Volume 124 Issue 2 March/April 2009
Eight years ago the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, was sabotaged by tribal enmity. Opponents of the US and Israel raised the temperature by comparing the Israeli occupation of Palestine with Nazism. Israel and the US stormed out. And the process, aimed at combating discrimination, has been dogged by controversy ever since.
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