UNESCO and FC Barcelona will launch a campaign against racism within the agreement between the two institutions in November 2007. The starting point of the campaign will kick off at next Wednesday's game 24th at the Nou Camp between Barca and Osasuna, during which a series of messages will be disseminated against racism, explained a statement from UNESCO. Later this year, several events are planned such as a public hearing in which the players of Barcelona will "add their voices to those who reject racism".
A previous cooperative project titled Youth, voices against racism, was conducted in 2008-2009 in collaboration with the European Parliament and the International Coalition of Cities against Racism, youths aged from 15 to 18 participated in the design and preparation of local policies and activities against racism. Many of these proposals are going to be implemented in this new campaign, which launches on the eve of The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, commemorated on March 21. In this framework, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris is now the scene of a youth symposium on racism and racial discrimination, at which is discussed, among other things, how to combat these phenomena. At the end of the symposium the opening of an exhibition of some thirty photographs of Rosa Luxemburg school of Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris, is planned which shows a variety of relationships between people of different backgrounds "when they have gone beyond stereotypes and prejudice".
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