Racial discrimination and related intolerance
we are served refreshment only in separate cups at roadside tea stalls, turned away from public swimming pools, stopped on highways as presumptive criminals, trafficked as prostitutes, denied our mothers nationality, classed willy-nilly as mentally disabled in schools, and abducted into slavery.
we are denied housing or burned out of our homes, refused fresh water from village wells, barred from employment or forced to perform degrading labor, and driven out of out of our communities or even our countries by terror.
we face beatings, sexual assault, wrongful arrest, or murder on a daily basis. in lieu of the birthright of equality we are marked from birth with the brand of discriminatory treatment.
these words are the distillation of testimony received by human rights watch that reflect the reality of racism as a global ill. this is the experience of countless millions who are victims of racial discrimination, xeno...