Descrimination In Germany

DESCRIMINATION IN Germany

Introduction

Germany is one of the countries where strong discrimination against Afro -descendants is suffered in their daily lives. This discrimination goes mostly unnoticed for most of the country, and applies to the authors are not effectively prosecuted, since there is not enough evidence for this to be carried out. Germany, in the work group of experts about Afro -descendants acknowledged the efforts of the country’s administrations to avoid racial discrimination.

Developing

During their visit in 2017, experts also helped in the international decade of Afro -descendants, who sought to underline the contribution of these people to society and strengthen international, regional and national cooperation to guarantee respect and promotion of rights humans of these people. Also, every January 27 worldwide the memory of all the Jews who perished in the Holocaust is honored.

In Germany there is a national action plan against racism and therefore its authorities signed and ratified belonging to the CERD organization (International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination) the German government updated it in June 2017, and in The same is also condemned the discrimination of homo and transsexuals.

Basic principles are, among others: discrimination victims receive protection, racist violence is punishable and racism and hate on the Internet are fought. In addition, commitment to civil society, civic education and diversity in the workplace are encouraged.

Anti -Semitism refers to the hostility towards the Jews based on a combination of religious, racial, cultural and ethnic prejudices (relative to the breed or ethnicity), this differs from antijudaism by the modern conception that had emerged in the middle of the century XIX.

Pierre-André Taguieff, a French philosopher, proposed to encompass all manifestations of hostility, aversion and hate towards the Jews who have occurred throughout history under the term of Judeophobia. Anti -Semitism can be manifested in many ways such as individual hate or discrimination, groups of groups directed with that purpose, or even police or state violence.

Racial and ethnic discrimination occurs daily in many countries, while preventing the progress of millions of people around the world. Racism and intolerance destroy lives and communities through their various manifestations, from depriving people of the fundamental principles of equality and non -discrimination, until promoting ethnic hatred that can lead to genocide.

conclusion

The fight against racism is a priority for the international community and that is why Germany has joined the efforts of the United Nations to face any case that generates racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and any form of discrimination in its population and in Any part of the world, and it is for these reasons that is limited to all the agreements and treaties of the United Nations, which enshrines in all the main human rights instruments the prohibition of racial discrimination, establishes obligations for the states and entrusts them with the task of eradicating the same from the public and private sphere by adopting special measures to eliminate the conditions that cause them or that it uses to perpetuate it.