Discrimination and poverty - Durban Review Conference Against Racism 27 April 2009

Magdalena Sepúlveda, one of the International Council’s Research Directors, participated this week in a side event to the Durban Review Conference Against Racism, held at the United Nations in Geneva from 20 to 24 April 2009. Ms Sepúlveda, in her capacity as the United Nations independent expert on the question of extreme poverty and human rights, attended as one of four keynote speakers in a discussion on “Discrimination and poverty: Exclusion and solutions in the new Millennium”, facilitated by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In her speech, Ms Sepúlveda drew from research in two of the International Council’s reports: Racial and Economic Exclusion, which examines the nature and mechanisms of the economic factors that contribute to racial discrimination, and The Persistence and Mutation of Racism, which surveys some of the main issues that preoccupy people who suffer from racism or who study its effects. Copies of the reports were disseminated at the event and are available here.