Anti-racism conference overshadowed by controversy

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Updated March 13, 2009 20:30:21

The tag "hatefest" continues to haunt a planned U-N anti-racism conference, with fears of a sizeable boycott amid claims of anti-Semitism.

Canada and Israel won't be attending and the U-S has said the proposed final statement for the April 20 conference is unsalvagable. Australia is also under significant pressure to pull out and says it will if the final statement is an anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli harangue.

Presenter: Linda Mottram
Speakers: Mark Dreyfus, Australian Labor Party MP; Stephen Smith, Australia's Foreign minister; Rupert Colville, spokesman, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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