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Statement by UNESCO on Race and Racial Prejudice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Judge Kemba M'Baye
Affiliation:
The Supreme Court, Dakar, Senegal—and others

Extract

In September 1967 a conference of 18 experts (geneticists, anthropologists, ethnologists, sociologists, historians, and jurists) from 16 countries—Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Poland, Senegal, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S.S.R., the U.K., the U.S.A., and Yugoslavia—met in Paris to discuss the biological, sociological, moral, and ethnic aspects of the race question, with special reference to the propositions adopted at a similar meeting called by UNESCO in Moscow in 1964. These in turn had brought up to date earlier statements made in 1950 and 1951. The Paris Conference agreed unanimously on the following statement, recently released for publication by UNESCO:

Type
Africana
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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