9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF CANADA
23 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined nineteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Canada on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Catrina Tapley, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Program Policy Sector, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, said that Canada was a multicultural society with more than 200 ethnic origins. In the 2006 census, over 1.1 million people had self-identified…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF VIET NAM
22 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined tenth to fourteenth periodic reports of Viet Nam on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Ha Hung, Head of the Delegation and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Ethnic Affairs, said that Viet Nam was a unified nation of 54 ethnic groups and equality among all ethnic groups was a fundamental principle of Government policy. The State had provided ethnic minorities…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF PORTUGAL
21 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined twelfth to fourteenth periodic reports of Portugal on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Rosario Farmhouse, High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, said that Portugal took a holistic approach to combating racism, promoting the integration of immigrants and Roma communities and encouraging intercultural dialogue. Portugal had undertaken…
9 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSES SITUATION IN VIET NAM AND CANADA WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
20 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an interactive dialogue with non-governmental organizations from Viet Nam and Canada. The reports of those two countries will be reviewed by the Committee this week.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations in Viet Nam raised a number of issues concerning discrimination against the Montagnard Degar people in Viet Nam including arbitrary detention for men, forced sterilization among women, land confiscation without…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF KUWAIT
17 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined fifteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Kuwait on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Sadiq Marafi, Charge d'Afffaires to the Permanent Mission of Kuwait to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said there were many national mechanisms for safeguarding human rights in Kuwait and action was being taken to finalize a law for a national institute for human rights…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF BRAZIL
17 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the seventh periodic report of Brazil on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the report, Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira, Minister of the Secretariat of Policies for Women of the Presidency of Brazil, said that today’s presentation had a special meaning for Brazil, who had recently elected its very first woman President. The 2011 National Plan for Women proved that…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF ISRAEL
16 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined fourteenth to sixteenth periodic reports of Israel on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Aharon Leshno-Yaar, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that the situation in the Middle East remained complex and highly volatile. Against that backdrop the Israeli-Palestinian issue was a pressing conflict in which the…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF MEXICO
15 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the sixteenth and seventeenth periodic reports of Mexico on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Alejandro Negrin Munoz, Ambassador and Director General of Human Rights and Democracy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Committee that major progress had been made in Mexico’s legal framework to comply with the Convention. The June 2011 reform of the Constitution included recognition…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION HOLDS MEETING WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
14 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an interactive dialogue with non-governmental organizations from Mexico, Israel and Kuwait. The reports of those three countries will be reviewed by the Committee this week.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations in Mexico raised a number of issues concerning Mexico’s indigenous population, which had less access to healthcare and education and whose lands were invaded, polluted and threatened with destruction by large-scale resource extraction…
9 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS EIGHTIETH SESSION
13 February 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its eightieth session, hearing an address by Carla Edelenbos, Chief of the Petitions and Inquiries Sections, United Nations Human Rights Treaties Division. The Committee elected its Chairman, three Vice Chairpersons and a Rapporteur, and adopted its agenda and programme of work.
In opening remarks, Carla Edelenbos, Chief of the Petitions and Inquiries Section of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties Division, drew the attention of the Committee to developments that had taken…
