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ROUND TABLE пїЅ"Promoting Dialogue and Tolerance Across Ethnic
Diversity" On March 19, 2003, a roundtable took place in Moscow
on the subject "Promoting Dialogue and Tolerance Across Ethnic Diversity" in the American Center,
organized by the Center for Interethnic Cooperation (CIEC). In all, representatives
from 14 Moscow ethnic communities, representatives from some of the Moscow's
NGOs, employees of the Embassy of the USA and Great Britain, as well as journalists
took part in the roundtable. The basic theme of the event was the relationship of
the government with racial minorities. The director of the CIEC, Ashot
Airapetyan, reported how governmental organs in the USA work with persons
belonging to racial and/ or religious minorities. Comparisons
between work in this sphere in the USA and analogue work in Russia were made. The
actual occasion for this discussion was the alternative report made by civil
rights organizations at the 62. Session of the UN Committee for Elimination
of all Forms of Racial Discrimination in Geneve on the 11th of
March. This report has shown that most of the human rights violations, which
are experienced by ethnic minorities, are made by state organs. The participants
of the roundtable discussed how the american experience could be used for
Russia and in what forms and spheres it could/ should be implemented. |