UN begins to move on caste discrimination

Caste discrimination clealy falls within my mandate claimed the newly-appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Racism Mr Mugai, speaking on 16 June 2009 at the end of a short debate on his first report to the Human Rights Council. One week after the landmark conference on untouchability held in London under the auspices of IHEU, an official of the Human Rights Council has finally taken this issue on board.

IHEU Main Representative in Geneva, Roy Brown, said We welcome this important new move by the Special Rapporteur. We now look forward to caste discrimination, untouchability, or discrimination based on work or descent being included in the remit of the new UN Observatory on Racism.

Brown highlighted the issue of untouchability in a speech to the Human Rights Council on 17 June. The full text of his speech is in this video and here: http://www.iheu.org/node/3658

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