Monday is International Day for the Elimination of Racism. To mark the date, the French action group SOS Racisme tested 136 home rental agencies and discovered that nearly half of them continue to accept property owners' demands for a discriminatory policy in the allocation of rental contracts.
International Day for the Elimination of Racism is marked on 21 March, in memory of the 69 people killed by South African police on this day in 1960 at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville against the apartheid government.