March 1st is Zero Discrimination Day
Let’s come together to end discrimination and celebrate diversity, tolerance and inclusion. By joining our voices together, we can be part of a resounding call for human rights, compassion and tolerance that cannot be ignored. Zero Discrimination Day is an opportunity to celebrate everyone’s right to live a full and productive life with dignity—no matter what they look like, where they come from or who they love. Let’s come together to end discrimination and celebrate diversity, tolerance and inclusion. Zero Discrimination Day is an opportunity to highlight how everyone can be part of the transformation and make some noise for fair, equal and just societies. Join the #zerodiscrimination movement.
From the UNAIDS Press Release:
"Everyone will have experienced discrimination of some kind during their lives; however, non-discrimination is a human right. Equally, states and individuals have a legal obligation not to discriminate. This year, on 1 March, Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS is urging people to make some noise around zero discrimination, to speak up and prevent discrimination from standing in the way of achieving ambitions, goals and dreams.
Discrimination has many forms, from racial or religious discrimination to discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation or age, and to bullying at school or at work. In only three out of 10 countries worldwide do equal numbers of girls and boys attend upper secondary school, and people living with disabilities are nearly three times more likely to be denied health care than other people.
“Everyone has the right to be treated with respect, to live free from discrimination, coercion and abuse,” said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. “Discrimination doesn’t just hurt individuals, it hurts everyone, whereas welcoming and embracing diversity in all its forms brings benefits for all.”
continue reading: http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2017/february/20170301_zero-discrimination-day
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