The UNESCO Courier against Racism

UNESCO’s actions against racism have been on the top of the agenda since the beginning – the Courier has always provided a powerful platform for debate and discussion of this dangerous and widespread prejudice that continues to blight our world.  According to Poul Duedahl, Professor of History at Aalborg University, Denmark, "there is no doubt that UNESCO's statements on race and the authority with which they spoke had a psychological impact and that they paved the way for a new way of thinking" (Anti-racism: UNESCO’s early mental engineering)

On the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March), we invite you to discover the UNESCO Courier issues dedicated to the subject of racism. 

• Racism does not need racists, December 2018
• The UNESCO Courier is 70: The only journal Nelson Mandela read on Robben Island, July-September 2018
• Colour, nation, ethnic hate: why racism?, September 2001
• The Roots of racism, March 1996
• Apartheid: the beginning of the end, February 1992
• Racism: Free Nelson Mandela, brave advocate of the rights of man, November 1983
• Southern Africa at grips with racism, November 1977
• An answer to Racism, November 1971
• Apartheid, March 1967
• Racism, October 1960
• Race and prejudice, April 1965 
• The Intellectual fraud of racial doctrines, August-September 1953
• Fallacies of racism exposed, July-August, 1950

Other articles and interviews

• South Africa: beyond exclusion, April 2001
• South Africa: a strategic ascent, June 2000
• The Price of truth, December 1999
• South Africa: quandaries of compromise, December 1999
• South Africa: blending tradition and change, November 1999
• Ending apartheid in education, July-August 1998
• The Ruses of racism, February 1993
• André Brink talks to Bahgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat,  September1993
• Apartheid: the shameful record, May-June 1986
• Racism today: 'us' and 'them', May-June 1986
• Prejudices, intolerance, racism, apartheid, January 1983
• Darwin and racism; Racial myths, May 1982
• Women and apartheid, July 1980
• Statement on Race and Racial Prejudice, May 1968
• The Ubiquitous shadow of racism, January 1968
• The Question of race and the democratic world, November 1949

See also our Tribute to Mandela.

Click here to learn more about UNESCO's actions against racism. 

Many other articles on racism are available in other issues. Do a keyword search to find them.