GENEVA / JESSE JACKSON

As the world marked the international day against racism, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson a key speaker at a UN Human Rights event condemned all forms of racism, describing it as immoral and called for legal efforts to prevent racial discrimination. OHCHR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:48
• Production Date: 21 March 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN RIGHTS
• MAMS Id: U120321d

Description

STORY: GENEVA / JESSE JACKSON
TRT: :48
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 MARCH 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Tracking shot, Jesse Jackson enters the Palais des Nations
2. Tracking shot, Jackson and team walk down hallway
3. Med shot, Jackson and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay meet
4. Zoom out, Jackson listening on panel
5. Two shot, participants at the panel
6. Wide shot, audience at panel
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of Rainbow Push Coalition:
“Racism is immoral, it is a sin.”
8. Med shot, audience at the panel
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of Rainbow Push Coalition:
“Racism is unscientific. It suggests that there are superior and inferior people based upon genetics.”
10. Med shot, audience at the panel
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of Rainbow Push Coalition: “Racial discrimination must be made illegal-as a deterrent to stop racist behaviour.”
10. Wide shot, audience at panel

Storyline

Speaking at a United Nations panel to mark the International Day against Racism, Reverend Jesse Jackson condemned all forms of racism saying it was immoral.

Jackson, who founded the Chicago-based Rainbow Push Coalition, also called for legal efforts to prevent racial discrimination.

“Racism is immoral, it is a sin,” he said, emphasizing that it was also unscientific because it was based on false claims of genetically-based measures of superiority and inferiority.

He urged that racial discrimination be made illegal as a deterrent to stop racist behaviour.

According to press reports, Jackson indicated today during his visit to Geneva that he was working to lead an international delegation of religious leaders to Russia and Syria to help find an end to the violence that has wracked the Middle East country.