Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Anti-Racism and Human Rights: Understanding and confronting racism, discrimination and inequality
This online course explored the history and legacy of racism. You learnt how and why racism constitutes a human rights violation, and what you can do to become an effective anti-racist.
3 weeks, 1 hour per week
Sacha Deshmukh
Chief Executive
Amnesty International UK
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and understand terms and concepts associated with race
- Reflect on the history of racism and Britain’s role in it
- Identify why racism is a violation of human rights
- Describe institutional (or structural) racism and individual (or interpersonal) racism
- Reflect that anyone can be anti-racist, and there are many ways of fighting against oppression
- Identify the role and importance of resistance to racism across history
- Describe the spectrum of racial injustice that still exists in the UK
- Create a better understanding of your power, privilege and personal context when practising anti-racism
- Explore your personal context and position in anti-racism
- Reflect on your own thoughts and experiences with race
- Demonstrate a confidence to continue learning anti-racist practice
Syllabus
- Understand that racism is a human rights violation. It is prohibited in all core international human rights treaties.
- Understand that activists who want to defend human rights need anti-racism knowledge and practice.
- Recognise the historical and ongoing legacy of racism.
- Define and recognise racism as a system of inequality and race as a social and colonial construct.
- Commit to anti-racist actions to tackle racial inequality.
Issued on 6th October 2023
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