9 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF TAJIKISTAN
09 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Tajikistan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Rustam Mengeliev, Minister of Justice of Tajikistan, said racial equality was enshrined in the Constitution of Tajikistan, which had 137 ethnic groups out of a population of 7.8 million. In 2009 the position of an Ombudsman on Human Rights was created whose…
9 years ago
COMMITTTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES REPORT OF ECUADOR
08 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 Ecuador on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Minister of Heritage of Ecuador, said it was only through the strictest adherence to human rights that Ecuador would be able to become a truly democratic and sustainable State where all men and women enjoyed true equality.…
9 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS EIGHTY-FIRST SESSION
06 August 2012
Meeting Summaries
Hears opening statement by the Director of Human Rights Treaties Division
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its eighty-first session, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme of work.
In his opening statement, Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, focused on the publication of the…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONCLUDES EIGHTIETH SESSION
09 March 2012
Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Israel, Kuwait, Portugal, Viet Nam, Canada, Turkmenistan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Qatar, Jordan and Italy; adopts annual report to the General Assembly
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concluded its four-week eightieth session on Friday 9 March and adopted its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Mexico, Israel, Kuwait, Portugal, Viet Nam, Canada, Turkmenistan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Qatar, Jordan and Italy which were considered during the…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF ITALY
05 March 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined sixteenth to eighteenth periodic reports of Italy on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Diego Brasioli, President of the Inter-Ministerial Committee of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the Italian legal system guaranteed the principle of non-discrimination, but racist attitudes still persisted. A 200,000 strong Roma community lived in Italy,…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF JORDAN
02 March 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined thirteenth to seventeenth periodic report of Jordan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Rajab M. Sukayri, Head of the Delegation and Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, reaffirmed Jordan’s commitment to combat all forms of discrimination on its territory, and to collaborate with United Nations human rights mechanisms. The…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF QATAR
01 March 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined thirtieth to sixteenth periodic report of Qatar on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Khaled Bin Jasem Al-Thani, Head of the Delegation and Director of the Human Rights Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, said that Qatar was fully committed to ensuring the enjoyment of all human rights by its people and the implementation of the Convention on the…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF THE LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
29 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined sixteenth to eighteenth periodic reports of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Chaleun Yiapaoheu, Head of the Lao Delegation, Minister of Justice and Chairman of the National Committee on Reporting under the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said 49 ethnic groups lived…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSES LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AND ITALY WITH NGOS
27 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an interactive dialogue with non-governmental organizations from Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Italy. The reports of those two countries will be reviewed by the Committee this week.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic raised a number of issues concerning the situation of indigenous minorities, saying that the Hmong population faced systematic violence and discrimination by the Lao…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF TURKMENISTAN
24 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined sixth to eight periodic reports of Turkmenistan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Batyr Erniyazov, First Deputy Minister of Justice, said that since 1991 Turkmenistan had striven to build a secular administrative state that protected the rights and freedoms of men and women. Significant progress had been achieved in complying with State obligations under…
