UN anti-racism conference concludes with hard-won agreement

GENEVA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations' anti-racism conference, which concluded here Friday, was quite an extraordinary meeting in terms of the topics it dealt with, the setbacks it met and the hard-won outcome it finally achieved, analysts said.

The conference was meant to assess and accelerate progress on the implementation of measures adopted at the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa.

It was very necessary to hold the meeting, as was decided by UN member states at a General Assembly meeting in 2006, in consideration that "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance are still problems that occur on a daily basis in every part of the world, hindering progress in the lives of millions of people," the UN said. link...