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- 1UN leaders renew push to defeat racism 25 years after Durban▼UN leaders renew push to defeat racism, 25 years after Durban
United Nations leaders have marked 25 years since the Durban Declaration, the landmark 2001 agreement against racism, by renewing calls to combat racial discrimination worldwide. The commemoration highlights that racism remains a persistent global problem and urges member states to recommit to the declaration's goals. Speakers stressed that progress has been uneven and that stronger action is still needed against racial hatred and inequality.
- 2UN Holds High-Level Meeting Marking 25 Years of Durban Declaration●High-level Meeting to Mark 25th Anniversary of Adoption of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
The United Nations is convening a high-level meeting to mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the landmark framework adopted at the 2001 World Conference against Racism in South Africa. The gathering brings member states and officials together to review progress on combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, a quarter-century after the commitments were made.
- 345 countries boycott UN Durban Conference anniversary●GOOD NEWS: Following UN Watch’s campaign, some 45 countries pulled out of the UN’s 25th anniversary of the infamous Durb
Around 45 countries withdrew from the United Nations' 25th anniversary commemoration of the 2001 Durban Conference following a campaign by the watchdog group UN Watch. The organization, which has long criticized the Durban process as tainted by antisemitism and the demonization of Israel, named Albania and Argentina among the countries it credited for showing what it called moral courage in pulling out.