On the occasion of #EmancipationDay, the Commission urges States to ratify the Inter-American Convention Against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Intolerance, and urges actions towards reparative justice.
In June 1953 my dad, aged 9, crowded into a neighbour’s house to glimpse the #Coronation on the tiny screen of a rented tv.
70 years later I’ll be in the Abbey. It’s a real privilege to be a witness to history - but the best bit is how proud my dad is.
Back in Edinburgh but still hearing in my head “This is the Victoria Line train to Brixton. The next station is King’s Cross St. Pancras. Doors will open on the left-hand side.”