The Arab conference on anti- racism

Cairo's center for human rights studies today opens works of the " preparatory regional Arab conference against racism."

The event is run by the center and is attended by some 70 Arab and international organizations working in the field of human rights from Africa, Asia, Europe and the US. The conference's sessions will be attended by its guest of honor, the Belgian lawyer Luke Waleine, who will file the judicial case against the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in his being a war criminal.

The conference will be held under the slogan:" Together, to overcome the last racist regimes." The events of the conference will deal with issues of slavery, and issues on the minorities, globalizations and conditions of women."

The seminars will deal with "the Israeli racism" and the Belgium lawyer will chair over the session which deals with racial cleansing committed by the Israeli forces in the occupied territories.