Racism and civil society: A Report on the National Summit on Racism
Introduction
In preparation for the World Conference Against Racism, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, with funding assistance from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, organised Racism and civil society: A national summit on racism which brought together a broad range of civil society, including Indigenous community and peak NGO leaders, academics, legal practitioners, human rights activists and representatives from business, religion, arts, sports and media.
Over two days the summit, both through the presentations of the panellists and most importantly animated, enthusiastic and at times challenging working groups, explored racism in Australia and examined our successes and failures in trying to combat it.
This report of the Summit is an attempt to bring together the ideas, experiences, analysis and strategies for future action, which the delegates covered over the two days. We have structured the report around the program of the Summit which in itself was based on the five themes of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and the questions under each theme in the HREOC discussion paper "Combating racism in Australia".
The Report has been organised into the following sections:
- Session One:
Sources, causes and victims of racism
- Session Two:
Measures of prevention, education and protection
- Session Three:
Effective remedies, recourse, rederess, compensatory and other measures
- Session Four:
Strategies to achieve full and effective equality, including international cooperation
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