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BBC World News | Focus on Africa, 21 April 2021

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, discusses the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd, the determination to avoid bringing race or systemic racism into the trial, and its erasure of important truths in the process

Politico | July 14, 2020

POLITICO Global Translations Interview with DAYLIGHT founder & UN human rights expert Dominique Day

BBC World News, 9 April 2020 | race + covid-19

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, discusses racial disparity and disproportionate risks navigated by Black people in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic

AJ+ (al jazeera online) | 28 Feb. 2019

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, speaks about the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent’s country visit to Belgium.

AJ+ (al jazeera online) | 14 Mar. 2021

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, speaks to Al Jazeera about recent surveys of UN staff revealing systemic professional barriers on the basis of race prevail

Harvard International Review | 24 Aug. 2020

Race as a Global Issue: Interview with Dominique Day 24.AUG.2020“I found a lot was lacking in the way that legal and policy institutions approached capacity building, so Daylight became a space to really build out both an implementation arm where we can build capacity but then also a much more complex way to think about strategy or to think about what it really looks like to make durable change.”

Race as a Global Issue: Interview with Dominique Day 24.AUG.2020

“I found a lot was lacking in the way that legal and policy institutions approached capacity building, so Daylight became a space to really build out both an implementation arm where we can build capacity but then also a much more complex way to think about strategy or to think about what it really looks like to make durable change.”

New York Times | 19 Apr. 2021

“The five-member United Nations panel, led by an American attorney and rights activist, Dominique Day, and including human rights experts from the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, said the report drew on dubious evidence to rationalize white supremacy and ignored the findings of other United Nations panels and human rights experts. It agreed that racial disparities may not always stem from racism or racial discrimination, but asserted that ‘there is also compelling evidence that the roots of these disparities lie in institutional racism and structural discrimination as they clearly do not reflect the preferences or priorities of the communities facing structural disadvantage.’”

“The five-member United Nations panel, led by an American attorney and rights activist, Dominique Day, and including human rights experts from the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, said the report drew on dubious evidence to rationalize white supremacy and ignored the findings of other United Nations panels and human rights experts. It agreed that racial disparities may not always stem from racism or racial discrimination, but asserted that ‘there is also compelling evidence that the roots of these disparities lie in institutional racism and structural discrimination as they clearly do not reflect the preferences or priorities of the communities facing structural disadvantage.’”

Gothamist | 8 Jun. 2020

“What we see with the ‘bad cops’ lists is a series of admissions that poor quality policing was going to compromise prosecutions, [but] the reality is poor quality policing compromises Black and Latinx people’s liberty,” said Dominique Day

“What we see with the ‘bad cops’ lists is a series of admissions that poor quality policing was going to compromise prosecutions, [but] the reality is poor quality policing compromises Black and Latinx people’s liberty,” said Dominique Day

The Guardian | 19 Apr. 2021

“In 2021, it is stunning to read a report on race and ethnicity that repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact, twisting data and misapplying statistics and studies into conclusory findings and ad hominem attacks on people of African descent.”

“In 2021, it is stunning to read a report on race and ethnicity that repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact, twisting data and misapplying statistics and studies into conclusory findings and ad hominem attacks on people of African descent.”

Thomson Reuters Foundation | 23 Oct. 2020

“From the very beginning, we saw an abandonment of human rights principles in the pandemic panic.People of African descent have faced higher risk of infection, severe illness, and mortality from the beginning, yet no special measures were taken by states, even as stark racial disparities emerged.”

“From the very beginning, we saw an abandonment of human rights principles in the pandemic panic.People of African descent have faced higher risk of infection, severe illness, and mortality from the beginning, yet no special measures were taken by states, even as stark racial disparities emerged.”

Forum on Business and Human Rights 2020 | 17 Nov. 2020

Confronting racism and xenophobia - What role for the Guiding Principles?

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, discusses the George Floyd murder and its implications for the fight against systemic racism against people of African descent as a component of human rights globally

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, does a deep dive into race, intersectionality, and international human rights with an all-star panel

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, discusses US obligations under international law and norms, how human rights activists build solidarity globally to fight for accountability, the end of impunity for police brutality, and other racial justice issues, and whether growing global protest may be leveraged for lasting change

31 January 2020

Black Lives and Business in the United States: UN Expert on People of African Descent, @Dominiqus breaks down why diversity-equity-inclusion #DEI isn't enough when it comes to meaningfully embedding #RacialJustice in #Business.

The Rights Track (podcast)|21 Jan. 2021

Keynote | Racial justice, non-discrimination, and human rights advocacy at the UN

“This is a moment of opportunity to end the war on drugs" says Dominique Day, Chairwoman of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, during the Opening session of the 64th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day, gives a keynote address at the Dartmouth College Police Violence Symposium, April 8, 2021

"Racial Inequality in Higher Education: A Transatlantic Conversation" | Closing Keynote

Comparative Law, COVID-19, and Racial Justice

23 Nov 2020 - Opening remarks by Dominique Day Chairperson of the WGEPAD, Moderator

19 September 2019: Chair of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Dominique Day joined and spoke during the launch of Count Us In: Nova Scotia’s Action Plan in Response to the International Decade for People of African Descent.

 

articles written by DAYLIGHT founder, Dominique Day

 
 
 
Fighting racism internationally starts with confronting racism internally

Fighting racism internationally starts with confronting racism internally

Leadership Starts at Home

The world desperately needs UN leadership to combat systemic racism. That cannot happen without tackling the systemic racism within the organization.

 

To Americans and to an international audience, exclusion of systemic racism from the trial of Derek Chauvin also suggests that existing mechanisms of policing and prosecution are viable, effective, and necessary without transformation. 

 
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“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”An apology is a commitment to truth-telling

 

Today, France’s roman national, is longer the exclusive province of a homogeneous population reframing past atrocities to whitewash the sins of their fathers. Instead, France’s diversity compels renegotiation of French identity.

 
 
 

We recognize something boundless — over the moon, even — in a mother’s love. But the license we give to ‘white motherhood’ tacitly sustains a web of white supremacy.