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UN proposes priorities to tackle structural racial and ethnicity-based discrimination for COVID-19 Recovery
Structural racial and ethnicitybased discrimination is not the making of COVID19 The pandemic however has been a magnifier of these phenomena Reports from across regions show that due to chronic deprivations and stereotyping ethnic minorities indigenous peoples migrants and refugees face a disproportionally higher exposure to the pandemic stigmatization and scapegoating and the shocks of extended lockdowns and the global economic recession Race and ethnicity are also intertwined with other facets of identity such as gender and disability generating dynamic feedback loops that maintain and compound inequalities