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JHRC at the UN Calls for Communities to Upgrade Co-operation against Racism and Discrimination

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“Side by Side: Tackling Racism Together”
Fringe Meeting at the Durban Review Conference

The Jewish Human Rights Coalition UK, along with UK Muslim activists and the Head of the British student movement, called yesterday for enhanced cooperation in combating racism at a fringe meeting during the Durban Review Conference in Geneva.
Over 200 senior NGO activists [...]

Denis Macshane MP Urges Government to Withdraw from Durban II if Jews are Attacked

Miliband Urged to Remove UK from UN Conference if Attacks on Jews Are Made
Denis MacShane MP, former No 2 in the Foreign Office, has written to Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to urge that Britain withdraws from a UN conference opening in Geneva tomorrow if Iran’s president Ahmadinejad and other governments use the event to increase [...]

UK Jewish Human Rights Coalition to combat racism at Durban Review Conference in Geneva

JHRC will be fighting racism at the UN Durban Review Conference that begins on this Monday, the 20th of April, in Geneva.
The original World Conference Against Racism, in 2001 Durban, was hijacked by Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist groups who led a well organised campaign , backed by Muslim and Arab governments, to exclude antisemitism from the [...]

Why we’re going to Geneva

A version of this piece, by Rosalind Preston OBE, appears in this week’s Jewish Chronicle
To go or not to go? That was the question.  And it still is - as discussions around the Western world on whether or not to attend the Durban Review Conference on 20 April have continued for months on end, seemingly [...]