The Other Durban III
On September 21-22, 2011 as world leaders gather at United Nations Headquarters to open the 66th Session of the General Assembly, and to commemorate the 2001 Durban conference on racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, an international coalition of NGOs will hold a parallel summit to place urgent situations of discrimination and persecution on the international agenda, promote human rights and democracy, and give a voice to the voiceless.
A futile gesture with everyone’s focus on a conference that will more than likely condemn only Israel while its neighbors shoot at Palestinians themselves. Still, anyone in New York would do well to at least give this little event some awareness…