Cyprus House of Representatives expresses its firm commitment to fighting racism and any other form of discrimination through legislative initiatives and other actions, the President of the House Annita Demetriou said Thursday, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination observed March 21. She also expressed the Parliament’s active support in ensuring respect for human rights and the value of human life. She said that International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed in commemorating the cold-blooded murder of 69 protesters by apartheid police in the South African city of Sharpeville in 1960. Demetriou said that seven decades later, Western societies are once again faced with racist attitudes, xenophobia and crimes with an unprecedented diffusion of hate speech in all aspects of public sphere.
Source: Cyprus News Agency