Archive for December 25th, 2019

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25/12/2019

FIRST PERSON: ‘Big Chief’ and the Million Beads

Human Wrongs Watch

24 December 2019 — The International Labour Organization (ILO) is marking its centenary in 2019 and as part of the commemoration has launched a photography project called “Dignity at Work: The American Experience” to document the working life of people across the United States. UN News joined the ILO on a visit to the southern US state of Louisiana. (*).

image560x340cropped.jpgILO Photo/John Isaac | Demond Melancon, also known as Big Chief, is a Mardi Gras Indian Chief of the Young Seminole Hunters group.

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25/12/2019

Much Work Needed to ‘Target Unacceptable Levels’ of Racism in Ecuador: UN Human Rights Experts

Human Wrongs Watch

Ecuador must implement and enforce laws and policies to protect the rights of Afro-Ecuadorians, the UN Working Group on People of African Descent said on Monday [23 December 2019], calling for an end to the “discrimination, exclusion and extreme poverty they suffer.” (*).

© UNICEF/Donata Lodi | A child stands in front of his house in Cayapas, Ecuador. In this area community schools have been set up by UNICEF in partnership with the local Catholic church, to provide basic quality education to children living in this remote area, where the vast majority of the population is Afro-descendant.

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