Tag: Racial Discrimination

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 12:51 UTC

  Canadian aboriginal groups demand independent probe into death of a young indigenous woman by the police

  

  Canadian aboriginal groups on Saturday (June 6) called for an independent probe into the death of an indigenous woman who was shot by a police officer called in for a wellness check.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 07:46 UTC

  Rioting in US Twin Cities following the death by police of a handcuffed black man

  

  Authorities in Minneapolis and its sister city St Paul got reinforcements from the National Guard on Thursday as they girded for fresh protests and violence over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 01:57 UTC

  OAS recalls Martin Luther King’s historic speech “I have a dream”

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza recalled on Wednesday the 50 years since the historic address by the great civil rights leader in the United States, Martin Luther King, “in which he shared his dream of inclusion and his will to put an end to racial discrimination using non-violent means.”

• Thursday, June 6th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  OAS assembly adopts convention against racism and all forms of intolerance

  

  The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in Guatemala adopted the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance and the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance and opened them for signature.