Synergy Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
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Volume No. 15, May 2010
International Day Elimination of Racial Discrimination
I/NGOs of Nepal participated in a program on the occasion of International Day of ‘Elimination of Racial Discrimination ’ in Kathmandu on March 28, 2010.
A rally organized by I/NGOs and Human Rights Commission, with the play cards and banners, marched around the main city and finally got together at the open space of Basantapur, Kathmandu where a munch was formed to stage various other programmes for this day.
The UN approved the International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination to be observed on March 21 every year.
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was first established in 1966, following a tragic event that shocks the conscience: the massacre of young students peacefully protesting against apartheid laws, adopted by the South African government, a brutal regime that applied the theory of inequality between races, regardless of humanity’s moral and ethical advances. Proclaiming the International Day, the United Nations General Assembly called upon the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
Nepal’s law abolishes the racial discrimination but the society still practices intensively such discrimination. Nepali people worship oxen, cows and dogs but people of higher castes do not touch inferior people (untouchable castes) and do not allow them to enter their houses. They treat human beings(untouchable castes) inferior to animals.
Synergy Nepal participated in this International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination that was observed this year on March 28.
 A banner of ‘Elimination of Racial Discrimination’
A banner of ‘Elimination of Racial Discrimination’ at Basantapur stage
Ethnic groups participating in the rally
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