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Systemic Racism Endures: Global Activism and Reparations Rise

12/21/2025

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Systemic racism persists despite the United Nations' 1965 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
The convention was driven by Global South states to counter racial superiority ideologies.
Racial discrimination includes arrests of Black migrants in Tunisia and exploitation of Kenyan workers in Saudi Arabia.
Racist rhetoric and anti-right movements threaten discrimination measures, while reparations gain momentum and activism grows in Brazil and the United States.

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Story summary

Systemic racism persists despite the United Nations' 1965 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
The convention was driven by Global South states to counter racial superiority ideologies.
Racial discrimination includes arrests of Black migrants in Tunisia and exploitation of Kenyan workers in Saudi Arabia.
Racist rhetoric and anti-right movements threaten discrimination measures, while reparations gain momentum and activism grows in Brazil and the United States.