I would like to thank the Welsh Government for tabling this important debate today. It's a sad fact that we have to table such a debate in the twenty-first century. Racism has no place in our society, but unfortunately racist elements still exist. 

The United Nations ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the 1960s, at a time when the civil rights movement was in full swing in the US, trying to put an end to racial segregation. The world has seen massive progress in the intervening decades, but racism continues to raise its ugly head. 

Across Europe, we have seen the rise of far-right political parties. Hungary is run by a far-right Government; the Swiss People's Party won almost a third of the vote in Switzerland; in Austria, the Freedom Party won a quarter of the vote; and in Denmark, the Danish People's Party won over 20 per cent of the ballot.