“We are witnesses of have larger and noisier demonstrations in Mexico. In comparison with those, the one happened yesterday was a pretty streamlined and manageable protest”,- so expressed his opinion Rio Sonia, Deputy General Director of National Council for Prevention of Discrimination, representative of Mexico, yesterday, in the interview with Aravot.am, regarding intrusion of Armenian activists combating against discrimination into the conference room during the conference “Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance In Europe” held with high-rank officials in Yerevan, yesterday.
Our interlocutor described this fact as an indicator of democracy. Then, the Mexican delegate spoke of the problems available in their country’s freedom of human rights and press. He especially conveyed the following: “We have diverse problems in this area. For example, in social networks we can see many expressions of hatred directed against the representatives of LGBT community. There are various displays of expression of racist speech, which reaches 20 million in Mexico. Especially emigrants of dark skin color become the target of hate speech.” Rio Sonia said, “Women also become targets of hate speech, for example, many cruel jokes about them are circulating in social networks and so on.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
