UN investigator: Migrants suffer worst racism

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS – Migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia, a U.N. independent investigator said Monday.

Githu Muigai, a Kenyan lawyer, said many other groups are also victims including ethnic minorities attacked because of their minority status, individuals stopped and searched because of their perceived religious or ethnic background, and soccer players insulted because of their color.

He reiterated his opposition to Arizona's controversial immigration law because it compromises basic international human rights that migrants are entitled to.

Muigai, the U.N. Human Rights Council's special investigator on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, spoke to reporters after presenting reports to the General Assembly on efforts to eliminate these practices.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101102/ap_on_re_us/un_un_racism_and_immigration

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[pampango]

1. In Europe and the US, the left (for the most part) still works to thwart the right's scapegoating of

immigrants.

"...no state is immune from extremist political parties, movements and groups with "a thinly veiled racist agenda, a xenophobic agenda."

He said some European parties "that have as their fundamental platform the exclusion of foreigners and the propagation of an ideology that is essentially racist" are extremist."

These European parties he refers to are on the far-right and have won seats in national and EU parliaments, but in no country are they a majority. The left in European national parliaments and the EU parliament still fight the far-right's "racist" and "xenophobic" agenda.

In the US the left still fights for the inclusion of immigrants whether they are Hispanic, Black or Muslim, while the right "wants their country back."

[AlphaCentauri]

3. Muslims are members of a religion

not of an ethnic group and they could be as right wing as any right wing Christian.

[Riftaxe]

2. Going by the theory that some racism

is better then others? :puke: Poorly written article at best.

[LanternWaste]

7. Where precisely was that implication written?

Where precisely was that implication written?

Does the medical analysis of a migraine or cluster headache minimize tension headaches?

[timo]

4. really?

so we are worse than African genocides that have been taking place?

[ProudDad]

6. The half-million dead in Iraq think so...if they could talk...

Their millions of relatives think so too...

All victims of the USAmerikan Empire from 1991 to the present... Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama...

The Corporate States of America and its Permanent War Economy(tm) are the deadliest terrorists on the planet...

[timo]

9. dont forget

the pakistanis who are victims of drone strikes, more deaths by drones now than ANY other administration....and were not even "at war" with Pakistan!!

[defendandprotect]

5. K&R

[nomorenomore08]

8. IMMIGRATION IS NOT A RIGHT!!!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: