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This was never going to be an easy conference," said Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as she spoke in Durban last week at the opening session of the U.N. Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. That was an understatement. The conference was a disgrace. It was a disgrace in conception--in the very idea that a few days of talk could lead to any useful action directed against a scourge that diminishes the lives of millions--and it was a disgrace in execution. The only good thing that might conceivably come...
...conference was conceived, in 1997, in the conviction--a true one--that "the dream of a world free of racial hatred and bias remains only half fulfilled." Robinson hoped the conference would "shape and embody the spirit of the new century, based on [the] shared conviction that we are all members of the human family." But for such sentiments to be more than pious cant, those who went to Durban had to travel in a spirit of generosity, reconciliation and compromise...
...into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary. It's not like being a "Berliner" - the rabbis are pretty protective over their criteria.) Outside, meanwhile, a group of pro- and anti-Israel activists trade...
...Robinson A. Ramirez ’02, a history concentrator in Quincy House, is associate design chair of The Crimson. He is living in Colombia and Panama this summer, musing about sports and society while conducting thesis research thanks to grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...
...Neither Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," nor Dean Haspiel's "Opposable Thumbs" are the ground-breaking comix work of "Raw." But they nicely represent two kinds of New York experience: urban opportunity and urban decay...