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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Race, equity, and neo-colonial legacies
Description: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in the United States, and the protests that have swept parts of the world since, we find ourselves face-to-face with a long overdue racial reckoning. We are now at the stage where institutions are transitioning from hearing out employees’ experiences to deciding what they will publicly commit to doing in order to combat discrimination and systemic inequities. But what does it mean to operate equitably and be anti-racist? And how do these terms apply to humanitarian action?
In this post, Saman Rejali, Thematic Editor at the International Review of the Red Cr...