11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF SLOVENIA
13 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the sixth and seventh periodic reports of Slovenia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Smiljana Knez, Head of the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, said that Slovenia consistently included provisions on the prohibition of incitement to national, racial, religious or any other inequality, and inflaming national, racial, religious, or any…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF FRANCE
12 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined seventeenth through nineteenth periodic reports of France on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Jacques Pellet, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that the debate on national identity was launched in 2009 and a major issue it revealed was the importance of strengthening the integration of newly arrived people in France…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF AUSTRALIA
11 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fifteenth through seventeenth periodic reports of Australia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Peter Woolcott, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said there had been a number of significant developments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs in Australia in recent years. In February 2008, the then Prime…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF ROMANIA
10 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixteenth through nineteenth periodic reports of Romania on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Csaba Ferenc Asztalos, President of the National Council for Combating Discrimination of Romania, said that the Romanian Government had created the National Council for Combating Discrimination as the main specialized body of the central public administration…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF UZBEKISTAN
06 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Uzbekistan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Akmal Saidov, Director of the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan, said that between 2007 and 2010 Uzbekistan had undertaken systemic efforts to improve the work of both state and non-governmental organizations in the elimination of racial discrimination. For…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF IRAN
05 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined eighteenth and nineteenth periodic reports of Iran on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Gholan Hossein Dehghani, Director General for International Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, said that a number of provisions had been adopted since Iran’s last periodic report to preserve the dignity and integrity of its citizens. A directive on…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF EL SALVADOR
04 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fourteenth and fifteenth periodic reports of El Salvador on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Alfonso Avelar, Director of the Department of Indigenous Peoples of the Social Inclusion Secretariat of El Salvador, said that the policy of non recognition and trying to forget the indigenous people had ended under the current…
11 years ago
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSS STRENGTHENING ROLE OF NGOS IN WORK OF COMMITTEE
03 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard statements from a series of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on how best to improve the interaction and cooperation between non-governmental organizations and the Committee.
In advance of the Committee’s review of the periodic reports of eleven countries, NGO representatives were invited to speak about the role of non-governmental organizations in the reporting process, including in relation to the follow-up procedure…
11 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSSION
02 August 2010
Meeting Summaries
Adopts Agenda and Programme of Work
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its seventy-seventh session, hearing an address by Carla Edelenbos, acting interim Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights Treaty Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme of work.
Carla Edelenbos, acting interim Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights…
11 years 5 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONCLUDES SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION
12 March 2010
Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Argentina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Monaco, the Netherlands, Panama and Slovakia
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its four-week seventy-sixth session and released its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Argentina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Monaco, the Netherlands, Panama and Slovakia, which were considered at this session.
Anwar Kemal, the Committee Chairperson, said the session was…
