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Committee: United Nations General Assembly
Country: Finland
Agenda: Deliberation Over Racial Discrimination, Racism And Xenophobic Beliefs With Special Emphasis
On Durban Declaration.

GSL ONE
“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover,” they said. But let's question why we as individuals judge another person
by the color of their skin? What is racism really? It is an ideology that can be openly displayed in racial
jokes and slurs or hate crimes but it can be more deeply rooted in attitudes, values and stereotypical
beliefs. It is more than a bias, it’s a dangerous cultural obsession.Yet again, innocent men and women
were killed for no other reason than prejudicial bias. It is imperative this problem be removed from the
private confines of whispered discussions and transparent excuses and placed squarely within the public
arena. Finland views the Durban framework as a ‘groundbreaking instrument’ for human rights principles,
with priorities still relevant twenty years after Member States first adopted this anti-discrimination agenda
in South Africa. While racism manifests differently across societies, none of us are free from the
effects.Finland is very much planning to work upon all the shortcomings & will try its best to leave no
stone unturned. Racism is so deep-seated in our culture that we think it to be the norm. Let’s fight not as
individual countries, but let’s work as a global community.

GSL TWO
"I was born in Congo and lived all my life there. I only encountered racism when I came to Russia in 2017.
I find it very hurtful. You step outside and everyone looks at you as if you're not human. It's really
offensive." What you heard right now is a statement by Roy Ibonga to the BBC. The delegation of Finland
would like to start by questioning the committee, that is what a “developed” country should look like?
Talking about Finland, which has a population of over 50,000 African descent citizens. In all these years
Finland, without any discrimination has tried to make all its citizens happier, and therefore bagging the
first rank in the world happiness survey. Talking about some anti-racism laws in Finland, Since 2004 the
Non-Discrimination Act (21/2004) is in force. It contains regulations concerning all kinds of discrimination
on private and public levels. The Act is based on the directives of the European Union concerning the
prevention of discrimination and implements them into Finnish national law. The laws have been pretty
successful. What we don't need is a history of separated races and nations, we need a history of a world
void of national bias, race hate and religious prejudice. To end racial injustice in law enforcement, we
cannot simply see the tip of the iceberg - we must face the mass below the surface.

GSL THREE
Greetings, So, The delegation Finland Believes somewhere or the other the white supremacy and politics
has contributed to making the global curriculum very selective in the information it allows students to
learn. The life of Martin Luther King Jr. has been buried under the popular slogan "I have a dream" and
his struggle against white supremacy is erased completely from public classroom discussions. The
curriculum does not allow the students to investigate the richness of his later speeches against economic
greed & economy. Schools say very little, if anything, about Malcolm X- Students cannot examine his life,
to see how it constantly affected the global community. There is not even a mention in the curriculum of
June Johnson, the thirteen-year-old black girl who joined Fannie Lou Hamer only to be brutally beaten by
white men, or-or say, Viola Liuzzo, a white activist who left her four kids to join hundreds of other African
Americans. Why is so much history excluded from our textbooks? Why are so many ordinary people who
criticized, fought for, and died for this nation's apparently great ideals excluded from our curricula? As
Vincent Harding asks in his book Hope and History: what is the purpose of our teaching? Where do our
assumptions & actions direct students? And with these questions, the delegation of Finland would like to
rest its case.

GSL FOUR
‘Finland is doing its best. Yes, it certainly is trying to work upon the suggestion given by the ECRI. The
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance recommended that Finland should develop its
monitoring of racist acts to establish how they are addressed by the competent authorities or the police,
the prosecution service, and the courts. In an amendment to the Criminal Code adopted in 2011, the
grounds for imposing a more severe penalty were specified in greater detail, allowing their more extensive
application not only for racist crimes but also for other types of hate crimes. It was also recommended that
Finland should criminalize racist acts committed through computer systems. Finland has ratified the
relevant Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime. The police are acting more efficiently to
combat online racism, for example through their Internet police activities. Early intervention in online hate
speech and racism is vital. All these things for sure add up to something, but it is only the future that can
only tell how these policies will affect our community in the long term. With this, the delegation of Finland
would like to rest its case.

Finland’s actions and steps to combat racism and xenophobia-

- Talking about some anti-racism laws in Finland, Since 2004 the Non-Discrimination Act (21/2004)
is in force. It contains regulations concerning all kinds of discrimination on private and public
levels. The Act is based on the directives of the European Union concerning the prevention of
discrimination and implements them into Finnish national law. The laws have been pretty
successful.
- Finland has ratified the relevant Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime. The police
are acting more efficiently to combat online racism, for example through their Internet police
activities
- We are one of the most overall happiest countries in the WORLD and with a little improvement
we will definitely become the best.
Discussion upon loopholes in diverse conventions and efforts by countries and
organizations-
- Starting with the durban conference which was set up to evaluate progress towards the goals set
by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.
- Despite this, the final outcome document makes no reference to caste-based discrimination.
- Challenges in the ICERD remain in timely submission of State parties’ reports, individual
communications procedures and implementation of the Convention. State parties should fulfill
their obligations to implement the instrument at the national level and regularly report the
progress to the Committee within the deadline.
- The Vienna Declaration can be viewed as something between a nightmare and a noble dream.
Keeping aside the tons of good work it has done, the VDPA is not an unqualified success if you
may say. The term “indigenous peoples' ' was rejected, and the wording in the text has an “S”
missing from it, alias “indigenous people”. This was due to the fact that some states did not wish
to use the term “indigenous peoples” to avoid possible linkage with the rights of peoples to
self-determination. Conservative states introduced a qualification to freedom of expression by
subjecting it to national law.
- No matter how many loopholes, violations, articles we are able to list today, the crunch remains
and will always remain IMPLEMENTATION, IMPLEMENTATION and IMPLEMENTATION.

Deliberation upon steps that countries believe in taking about the future of a progressive vision
and to totally exclude xenophobia-
Coming onto what can be done- The delegation suggests the following solutions-
- Firstly, which would be EDUCATION-EDUCATION & EDUCATION, Finland Being On The Rank 1
when it comes to education has actually seen the result of empowering the youth.
- Laws and articles should not exist only on paper, but should comprise large-scale awareness
campaigns directed at the general public and potential victims, as well as training for the
appropriate officials.
- For this reason, it is important to set up an independent national body with the unique
responsibility of fighting racism and racial discrimination.
- Finland urges all parties to stop racial practices. Beginning with, UAE who has deported 700
African migrants for no reason but racial prejudice and Russia who is using technologies to
“classify” people into social groups.
- Moreover, we need to consult people who have faced racial discrimination at every step of the
way with special regard to decisions that can make a monumental impact on their lives.
- The most crucial step to ending racism is to recognize its existence. Many people think of racism
as always overtly blatant or intentional, but racism comes in many forms. Most people claim to
hate racism, but if they aren’t able to identify what it is, it will inevitably continue to thrive.
- The delegation of Finland would like to end on the note that it is us who can make a difference.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.
Thankyou
Discussion upon the rising far right groups and their impact on anti semitism-

Backup topic - Deliberation upon discrimination in the health sector with special emphasis
on the Covid Pandemic-
- As the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants must be seen as both potential victims
and as an integral part of any effective public health response.
- It is particularly important that all authorities make every effort to confront xenophobia, including
where migrants and others are subject to discrimination or violence linked to the origin and
spreading of the pandemic. COVID-19 does not discriminate, and nor should our response, if it is
to succeed.
- For our response to this pandemic to be effective, we must overcome the current barriers to
adequate, affordable, truly universal, health coverage.
- The inclusion of all marginalized groups is necessary in all aspects of the response to COVID-19,
whether we are looking at prevention, detection, or equitable access to treatment, care or
containment measures, or safe conditions of work.
- Only with an inclusive approach, truly leaving no-one behind, will we all be able to overcome this
global crisis of unprecedented magnitude and proportions.
- The covid-19 pandemic has affected groups that face discrimination and historical injustices
hardest. Many governments have used the pandemic to further undermine civil and human rights
and promote extractivism
- A post-covid world must ensure equity, social justice, solidarity, and a shift in the balance of
power and resources to people living in poverty and otherwise marginalized
- With this, the delegation would like to rest its case.