On paper, the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance (WCAR) seems like an idea whose time has come. By focusing global attention on one of the world's most insidious evils and assembling thousands of human rights activists, such an [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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