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IPS Latest Reports from Durban
 

CULTURE: A Message of Equality from Anti-Racism Talks

DURBAN, Sep 7 (IPS) - If the medium is the message, then the UN World Conference has been a week of powerful anti-racist consciousness-raising.

RIGHTS: Victims Speak about their Experiences with Racism

DURBAN, Sep 7 (IPS) - Twenty-one people who told the World Conference Against Racism about their experience with racism in a special forum entitled 'Voices' have called for their voices never to be forgotten .

RIGHTS: NGOs on the Link between AIDS Race and Discrimination

DURBAN, SEP 5 (IPS) - To understand the racial and other discrimination that the HIV/AIDS epidemic trails in its devastating wake, take a walk in the park across the road from the venue of the UN World Conference Against Racism .

RIGHTS: Pleas for Flexibility as U.S. Israel Pull out of UN Meet

DURBAN, Sep 4 (IPS) - An emotionally charged day followed the pull-out from the conference by the United States and Israel on Monday as the fall-out from the Middle East continued to scald the UN World Conference Against Racism.

RIGHTS: U.S., Israel Abandon Anti-Racism Talks

DURBAN, Sep 3 (IPS) - The United States and Israel, faced with an implacable wall of support for Palestine, pulled out of the U.N. World Conference Against Racism Monday .

RIGHTS: Genetics Seen to Breed New Forms of Discrimination

DURBAN, Sep 3 (IPS) - Genetic research and experimentation have raised the spectre of new forms of discrimination, the World Conference Against Racism heard Monday .

RIGHTS: From Far and Wide, Tales of Woe Told at Anti-Racism Meet

DURBAN, Sep 3 (IPS) - For two months Nusreta Sivac, a former Bosnian judge, was detained in a concentration camp in northern Bosnia where she was tortured and raped .

Grassroots Groups Fail to Reach Anti-Racism Consensus

DURBAN, Sep 2 (IPS) - Civil society groups have been unable to forge a final declaration or programme of action to fight racism after five days of intensive talks alongside a similarly fractious meeting of their governments .

Women Build Case Against Discrimination at Racism Meet

DURBAN, Aug 31 (IPS) - From Kenya all the way to the Philippines, women have come to the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), which opened Friday, to tell their stories about the violence of colonialism, cultural genocide, economic injustice and contemporary forms of racism against women .

Disparate Aims at World Anti-Racism Meet

DURBAN, Aug 31 (IPS) - The World Conference Against Racism, which began here Friday, takes place in a world where the scourge has grown and morphed to take on new forms since previous U.N. anti-racism conferences in 1978 and 1983 .

Palestinians Take Their Case to Anti-Racism Talks

DURBAN, Aug 30 (IPS) - Manar Farrg, a 15-year-old Palestinian delegate to international anti-racism talks here, is speaking for young people like herself who have grown up in refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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