UNESCO Campaign Tackles Racism
UNESCO Campaign Tackles Racism
The Paris-based U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization on Thursday launched a campaign to fight prejudice. The move coincided with International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Begun with the French city of Bordeaux the UNESCO billboard campaign features a variety of faces old and young men and women and of many ethnic backgrounds The tagline us different aims to make us think about who we are and our prejudices.You would walk by it and hope fully react Is that person on the screen different said Magnus Magnusson partnerships and outreach director at UNESCO’s social and human science division Ultimately it’s about our own awareness of our own stereotypes and we need to work each one of us on those stereotypes that could illustrate or be reflections on racism he said The campaign rollout comes at a time when experts say brazen forms of racism are resurging in sports on social media and in politics The initiative follows last week’s mass shooting in Christchurch New Zealand in which a self proclaimed white nationalist opened fire on worshippers at two mosques. Fifty people were killed. The suspect has been charged with murder.