UN independent human rights experts on Monday denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified historical facts, and could even fuel racism and racial discrimination. The report was presented on 31 March by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which was set up by the UK government after the Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests erupted across the world, following the death of George Floyd, last year. The human rights experts also said that the report cited “dubious evidence to make claims that rationalize white supremacy by using the familiar arguments that have always justified racial hierarchy”.
The Working Group also said that the British Commission’s report omitted any recognition or analysis of institutional racism by international human rights bodies, including the Working Group’s 2012 review, the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and the 2018 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism. The experts also condemned the report’s assertion that while there might be overt acts of racism in the UK, there was no institutional racism.
The experts noted that while racial disparities may not always stem from racism or racial discrimination, there is compelling evidence that the roots of these disparities lie in institutional racism and structural discrimination, as they clearly do not reflect the preferences or priorities of the communities facing structural disadvantage. The Working Group also said that the report’s mythical representation of enslavement was an attempt to sanitize the history of the trade in enslaved Africans.
Part of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council, the Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent was established in 2002 with a mandate to study the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent living, and to make proposals for the elimination of racial discrimination against them. The Working Group is composed of five independent human rights experts, who are not UN staff and do not receive a salary. They serve in their individual capacity and are independent from any government or organization.
Source: The UN
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