8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS
29 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning met with the Hon. Justice Gerard Niyungeko, the President of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights.
Alexei Avtonomov, Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said the meeting of Chairs of Treaty Bodies had decided to strengthen the relationship and exchanges on case law and the experience between the treaty bodies and the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights and various bodies within the African system.…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSES RACIST HATE SPEECH
28 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today held a thematic discussion on racist hate speech in which it held three panel discussions on the concept of racist hate speech and its evolution over time, on racist hate speech in political life and in the media, including the Internet, and on racist hate speech and freedom of opinion and expression. The work of the Committee in combating racist hate speech was also discussed.
Alexei Avtonomov, Committee Chairperson, in his opening remarks, said that the aim of the thematic debate was to stimulate…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF LIECHTENSTEIN
27 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fourth to sixth periodic report of Liechtenstein on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Martin Frick, Director of the Office for Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein, said that the Office of Equal Opportunities, established a decade ago, had been discontinued and would be replaced by a fully independent body for human rights, whose mandate would…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF FINLAND
24 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Finland on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Arto Kosonen, Director and Legal Counsellor of the Unit for Human Rights Courts and Conventions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, spoke about new measures to prevent racial discrimination in Finland, including the first National Action Plan on…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF AUSTRIA
23 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twentieth periodic report of Austria on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Brigitte Ohms, Deputy Head of the Division for International Affairs at the Legal Service in the Federal Chancellery of Austria, said Austria employed a twofold approach in its fight against racism: prevention and provision of effective help for victims. The…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
22 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fifteenth and sixteenth periodic report of the Republic of Korea on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Park Sang-Ki, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said the Republic of Korea was rapidly moving towards a multicultural and multi-ethnic society. By January 2012 over 2.8 per…
9 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF FIJI
16 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twentieth periodic report of Fiji on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Peceli Vocea, Ambassador of Fiji to the European Union, said since Fiji’s last report to the Committee in 2008 the Government had made remarkable progress in implementing the Convention. First, the Ambassador was pleased to announce that on 10 August 2012 the Fijian…
9 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS SITUATION OF BELIZE IN ABSENCE OF A REPORT
16 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today held a meeting under its review procedure to discuss how Belize was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in the absence of a report from the State party.
Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah, the Committee Rapporteur for the review of Belize, said that after 10 years of waiting and fruitless attempts to contact Belize, the Committee was examining the situation in Belize under the review procedure. Belize had signed up…
9 years ago
COMMITTTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF SENEGAL
15 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixteenth to eighteenth periodic report of Senegal on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Fode Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said since Senegal’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1972, it had been committed to fighting racism, racial…
9 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF THAILAND
10 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined initial to third periodic report of Thailand on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Pithaya Jinawat, Director General of the Department of Rights and Liberties Protection at the Ministry of Justice of Thailand, said as a centuries-old multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society, the challenges in building a society based on respect and tolerance were…
