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US snubs UN commitment to stamp out racism
The US was not present when global leaders pledged to double down on racism. Meanwhile, the Honduras president publicly denied drugs trafficking allegations.
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US snubs UN commitment to stamp out racism
The US was not present when global leaders pledged to double down on racism. Meanwhile, the Honduras president publicly denied drugs trafficking allegations.
World leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday recommitted efforts to stamp out racism. The commitment marked the anniversary of a 2001 South African anti-racism conference
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The assembly called for national institutions to adopt "adequate reparation or satisfaction" for people with African heritage in a meeting on racial justice.
"Millions of the descendants of Africans who were sold into slavery remain trapped in lives of underdevelopment, disadvantage, discrimination and poverty,'' South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a video message.
Ramaphosa called the years of slavery "one of the darkest periods in the history of humankind and a crime of unparalleled barbarity.''
The US and Israel were two of 19 nations that did not attend Wednesday's meeting because the UN anti-racism conference in 2001 had decided to include Palestinians as a discriminated people.
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