Volker Türk to Human Rights Council: No Country Can Claim to be Free of Racism and More Needs to be Done to Combat Systemic Racism and Discrimination that Permeate Social Structures, Institutions and Technologies

Council Continues General Debate on Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon told the Human Rights Council that despite the many and important steps forward, today, no country could claim to be free of racism and more needed to be done to combat systemic racism and discrimination that permeated social structures, institutions and technologies. 

Mr. Türk was the key-note speaker at the debate held by the Council in commemoration of the International Day . . .