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09.05.2023

"We Need Safeguards for Human Rights!"

Jochen Motte, Executive Secretary JPIC and Deputy General Secretary UEM, member of the coordination circle of Forum Human Rights (Forum Menschenrechte). Foto by: UEM

On 9 November 2023, the fourth regular review of Germany will take place before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. So far, Germany has been reviewed in 2009, 2013 and 2018 as part of the 'universal periodic review'.

As with previous reviews, the Forum Human Rights (in German: Forum Menschenrechte), of which the UEM is a member, has formulated recommendations and demands for the German government in an official statement and sent it to the Office of the UN High Commissioner in the run-up to the review.

Here you can find the full text of the statement.

The member organisations see a need for action in the following areas, among others: Right to housing, women's rights, children's rights, rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, economy and human rights, climate change and human rights as well as equality, non-discrimination, racism and racist violence.

Considering the threatening assault against UEM staff member and author Sarah Vecera on 23 March 2023 during a reading from the book "How did Jesus become white" in Leipzig in the context of the "International Week against Racism" (here the UEM statement on the incident), Dr. Jochen Motte, member of the UEM management team and representative in the FMR coordination circle, emphasises: "It is urgently necessary to take state measures as listed in the submission to protect people from racism and racist violence."

In addition, the submission states state failure in the prosecution and sentencing of 'hate crimes'. According to the statement, both jurisdiction and the judiciary are not sufficiently capable of recognising and reacting to motives of hate and racism. Against this background, the Forum calls for the establishment of specialised prosecution authorities on hate crimes. 

Further demands relate, among other things, to a necessary stronger differentiation between racism and right-wing extremism, the removal of the old and outdated term "racism" from the German Constitution and the introduction of institutionally independent complaints procedures.

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