In addition to the United Nations backed International Law Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination, with dramatic unanimity, the sacred scriptures of diverse holy traditions around the world vehemently stand against hateful racism.
Any crime committed by one human being against another is a tragedy, but a crime motivated by hatred tears apart the lives of those targeted, their loved ones, and the larger group they represent.
Racist hate crimes escalate prejudice, often against minority groups, into violence. A criminal act can be classified as a racist hate crime when the perpetrator targets the victim because of the victim’s race, religion or ethnicity. Australian law punish these crimes more harshly because the perpetrator intentionally chose to harm someone because of their actual or perceived race. Often, victims may be afraid to come forward for fear of increased stigma or re traumatisation by law enforcement.
LIVE is committed to combating all forms of racism including discrimination and bigotry based on faith and religious choices. We are very aware that hate groups are becoming ever-more vocal, visible, and violent. LIVE joins in unanimity with the many people in our society and within our community neighbourhood of all racial backgrounds who face hatred and discrimination, with the knowledge that an interdisciplinary approach to challenge the intersectional nature of racial injustice is much needed.
LIVE seeks to achieve this by firstly by challenging the various faith groups to address racism in their own structure and life and we draw on their work and experience in this struggle to combat racism. LIVE’s interdisciplinary approach to the challenge of racism is further achieved by involving colleagues from different areas of LIVE’s work such as: indigenous justice groups, women and children’s justice groups and migrant, refugee and asylum seekers rights groups .LIVE with Virtues is another powerful educational tool to help combat racism for good, which we promote in workplaces, homes and schools, nationwide.