CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:
- The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March.
- The 2022 edition of the International Day focuses on the theme “VOICES FOR ACTION AGAINST RACISM”.
- On that day, in 1960, police opened fire at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws; 69 people were killed, and 180 were injured.
- In 1979, the General Assembly adopted a programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.
- On that occasion, the General Assembly decided that a week of solidarity with the peoples struggling against racism and racial discrimination, beginning on 21 March, would be organized annually in all States.
