Anti-Racism Groups Host “Race Matters” A Public Forum to Commemorate International Human Rights Day

Anti-Racism groups including Urban Alliance on Race Relations, South Asian Women’s Centre, National Anti-Racism Council of Canada, Labour Community Services, Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter, and Chinese Canadian National Council will host a public forum to commemorate

International Human Rights Day

Date and Time: Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Location: 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120, Toronto, Ontario

This evening event will feature a panel discussion on “Media Responsibility in Promoting Human Rights in an Equitable Society” with the focus of discussion being the Maclean’s “Too Asian”? article published in its November 22, 2010 edition.

The panelists include:

Pat Case – University of Guelph

Cheuk Kwan – W5 Ad-Hoc Committee

Danielle Sandhu – Canadian Federation of Students

Florence Li – CCNCTO

Special Guest: Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner Ontario Human Rights Commission

Attendees are request to RSVP with Yumei Lin yumei@urbanalliance.ca 416-703-6607 x 5 or Estella Muyinda estellamuyinda@narcc.ca

Light refreshments, generously sponsored by Labour Community Services, will be served.

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For more information, please contact:

Tam Goossen, Urban Alliance on Race Relations, 416-964-3595

Kripa Sekhar, South Asian Women’s Centre, KSekhar@sawc.org

Estella Muyinda, National Anti-Racism Council of Canada, estellamuyinda@narcc.ca, 416-979-3909

Sharon Simpson, Labour Community Services, SSimpson@labourcommunityservices.ca

Karen Sun, Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter, karen@ccnctoronto.ca 416-596-0833×3

Victor Wong, Chinese Canadian National Council, national@ccnc.ca, 416-977-9871