By Jamel Nampijja / GICJ
On the 5th of July 2022, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Ms E. Tendayi Achuime presented two reports that contextualized and examined how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the International Development Agenda mitigate as well as propagate racial discrimination within
and between nations.
The first Report addressed racial discrimination and related intolerances against individuals on the basis of their race, colour, descent, and ethnicity. COVID-19 exemplified the unequal access to treatments and intellectual property rights that were continuously denied to developing Nations.
The second Report focussed on combating the glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and related extremist ideologies by racist Nationalist, far right political parties and organisations operating throughout various national contexts spreading racist ideologies and promoting exclusionary political manifestos.
Ms Achuime emphasised that the 2030 Agenda is incapable of fundamentally disrupting the dynamics of racially discriminatory practices and the development embedded in the international economic order. The development framework is ill-equipped to halt racial inequality within and among states. Global economic and financial systems continue to sustain racially discriminatory underdevelopment, as the international development framework is inadequate to challenge the status quo.
Geneva International Center for Justice is outraged by the State’s insincere commitment to racial justice and equality. We, therefore, call on States to strengthen their commitment to the elimination of all forms of discrimination and intolerance. We call on all States to immediately implement the recommendations provided by the Special Rapporteur.
Special Rapporteur, Interactive Dialogue, Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, Intolerance, Nazism, Neo Nazism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Covid-19 Apartheid, Human Rights Council, HRC50, Regular Sessions, Human Rights, Geneva, Geneva International Centre for Justice, GICJ
