Joint call on North Korea’s anti-black hate speech and racist propaganda on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Recommendations for North Korea’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 9 May 2019

Seoul, March 21, 2019 Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which commemorates the 59th anniversary of the massacre of 69 peaceful anti-apartheid protesters in Sharpeville, South Africa on 21 March 1960. While humanity has made great progress in terms of ending institutional segregation and discrimination in the decades since that dark chapter in history, the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination remains a distant, unfulfilled dream. The theme of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is: Mitigating and countering rising nationalist populism and extreme ...