On Racism: Every Third Afro-European Have Been Confronted With Hate Crime - a podcast by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

In our latest episode of “On Human Rights” we spoke with Michael McEachrane and Morten Kjaerum about racism in Europe and Black Lives Matter.

Michael McEachrane is a Visiting Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. His current research focus is on postcolonial/decolonial perspectives on human rights, structural racial discrimination and reparatory justice. Michael McEachrane is a regular commentator on issues of race for international as well as Swedish media.

Morten Kjaerum is the Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Prior to that, he was the first Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna from 2008 to 2015. He is currently also Chair of The Board of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). He was a member (2002-2008) of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and its follow-up rapporteur from 2006-08.

the first Independent Expert and Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment appointed by the Human Rights Council.

We discussed the relevance of human rights to the environment and the steps necessary to protect human rights in the era of worldwide climate change.

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