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OHCHR / MIGRANTS RACISM
STORY: OHCHR / MIGRANTS RACISM
TRT: 01:48
SOURCE: OHCHR / STILLS COURTESY OF EPA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 FEBRUARY 2016, NAIROBI, KENYA
STILLS – COURTESY EPA – 27 OCTOBER 2015, SPIELFELD- SLOVENIAN AUSTRIAN BORDER
1.Still photo, migrants waiting at the border
03 FEBRUARY 2016, NAIROBI, KENYA
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Mutuma Ruteere, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:
“I am particularly concerned by the upsurge of violence by neo -Nazi groups and organised groups that are targeting individuals based on their race and nationality. We have seen specifically in places like Sweden, but not just Sweden but also other parts of Europe”
STILLS – COURTESY EPA – RECENT – ATHENS, GREECE
3.Still photo, migrants holding a huge banner that reads Europe Against Racism
03 FEBRUARY 2016, NAIROBI, KENYA
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Mutuma Ruteere Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:
“It is important that European States take decisive action to investigate, prosecute those individuals and groups that organised attacks against people on the basis of their race and ethnicity. It is also important that political parties and leaders in Europe denounce those who have promoted violence and discrimination against refugees and migrants.”
STILLS – COURTESY EPA – 25 JANUARY 2016, MOLNDAL, SWEDEN
5.Still photo, a female woman employee at a migrant center outside Goteborg was killed in a knife attack inside the center
03 FEBRUARY 2016, NAIROBI, KENYA
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Mutuma Ruteere Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:
“There must be adherence to rule of law, there must be adherence to the international human rights norms and to the international treaties protecting refugees and migrants that these States have signed up to.“
STILLS – COURTESY EPA – RECENT, KIEL, GERMANY
7.Still photo, migrants waiting to board a ferry to Sweden
European States that have been dogged by attacks against migrants in the past few days must take decisive action to “investigate the individuals who have targeted migrants on the basis on their race and nationality, “ according to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Mutuma Ruteere.
In a video message today (3 Feb) in Nairobi, Ruteere expressed his concern over rising violence meted on migrants and refugees.
He said, “I am particularly concerned by the upsurge of violence by neo-Nazi groups and organised groups that are targeting groups based on their race and nationality.”
Ruteere urged the media to report on the migrants issue responsibly, and called for zero tolerance to impunity for these crimes.
He emphasized the need of a Europe-wide response initiative to address the challenges arising from the people moving to Europe massively as a result of conflict in their home countries.
“There must be adherence to rule of law, there must be adherence to international human rights norms and to the international treaties protecting refugees and migrants that these states have signed up to,“ Ruteere said.
There were recent reports of up to 100 masked men, dressed in black, who gathered in central Stockholm to attack people from immigrant backgrounds over the weekend.
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