'Raise your voice': The 'FaceRace' campaign targeting anti-Asian racism in Canada

 
TORONTO --
A new campaign called #FaceRace is working to raise awareness about racism faced by Asian-Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing stories from those who have been targeted, and provide tips on what to do if confronted.
Clinic Director of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic Avvy Go told CTV's Your Morning the online resource tool was created in response to stories Asian-Canadians heard within their communities about racist incidents and micro-aggressions that increased following Canada's first COVID-19 case last year.
"Shortly after the first case of coronavirus arrived in Canada, some Canadians started to target Chinese Canadians and they blamed the Chinese-Canadians for bringing the virus, they call[ed] it Wuhan virus or Chinese virus, and they started targeting Chinese-Canadians as well as Chinese-Canadian businesses," Go explained on Wednesday.

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