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Preventing Racial Discrimination

All around the world, people struggle to belong to wherever life places them no matter what color or religion or belief one might have and there is a human right law to prevent any person from ever feeling racism. There is also a Convention whose goal is to put down racial discrimination all around the world. It is called the ICERD or the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. This convention was opened for signature at the Unite Nation General Assembly on the twenty-first of December 1965, then entered and took action on the fourth of January 1969. By October of 2011, it has gained eighty-six signatories and a hundred and seventy-five parties. After the Convention was set into motion it was then monitored by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination or CERD.

As I’ve said, one of the common goals of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is to stop any forms of racial discrimination all around the world. Why do you think there’s a force needed to drive away racial discrimination? I, for one, think that racism has reached a much more extreme level even before. That is why this Convention was made: it is a second generation human right instrument and each of its member commit to put down any kind of racial discrimination and to promote understanding in all colors, religion, and races. What is the effect of racial discrimination to all of us? Simply that it puts a huge gulf between any race to ever interact and have an understanding since one thinks that the other is any lesser. One, it does not seem right to underestimate one person just because of ones origins or belief. And two, no one is any lesser or higher that the other next person. People can be scaled by their skill and achievement not by their race or color or religion.

As the saying goes, “Everyone is equal” from thereon we should have understood that you can never look down on people depending on their character or skill. Mostly, different people of different coloring and culture mostly suffer from racial discrimination and I most certainly think that it is not and should not be tolerated. Racial discrimination is one form of bullying and ever since then it has been frowned upon by so many people and it is also been taught in school that children should prevent bullying. Let’s all stop racial discrimination and at the same time stop one form of bullying and make the future for the young a more peaceful one and teach them that there is a law of human right against racism and it is there for a reason: to stop people from discriminating different color, race or belief than their own.

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