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70 Chapter 3 Racial discrimination and gender justice Nozipho January-Bardill Introduction The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD/the Convention) in November 2015 occurred during an important year when the UN also celebrated the twentieth year of the adoption by UN member States of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (PFA) during the fourth UN World Conference on Women in China in 1995.1 Of additional interest is the fact that
Racial Discrimination Convention 8 Racial discrimination and indigenous peoples – in particular under the Racial Discrimination Convention Introduction The major instrument of the UN devoted to the issue of race discrimination is the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICEARD). The Convention – preceded by a Declaration on the same subject1 – was adopted by the GA on 21 December 1965 by 106 votes to 0,2 and entered into force on 4 January 1969.3 By December 2001, the Convention had 161 States’ parties. The text
Nineteenth-century international law imbibed the racist virus. The twentieth century attempted to find an escape through fundamental, principled restatements of the equality and dignity of human beings and the worth of the cultures of humanity in all their subtlety and variety. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) was preceded by the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1963, and converted its premises into legally binding standards. The ICERD carried the hopes and aspirations of many in the international community for an international order of mutual respect and harmony among nations and peoples. This book tracks the debates that have shaped Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's (CERD) policies and practices on disaggregated data over its first forty-five years. The UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance (WCAR) created an opportunity for the family of nations to engage in a global dialogue. The rights of indigenous peoples under international human rights law have greatly evolved with the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007. CERD's serious attention to the continuing role played by anti-Romani sentiment - anti-Gypsyism - in shaping the societies is required. The central concern of General Recommendation 35 (2013) of the CERD was to figure out and set out how the 'resources' of the ICERD can be optimally 'mobilised' for the purpose of combating racist hate speech.
This book is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights. The primary reference point is contemporary law, though the book also examines the history of indigenous peoples through the lens of historical legal discourses. The work critically assesses the politics of definition and analyses contested definitions and descriptions of indigenous groups. Most of the chapters are devoted to detailed examination of existing and emerging human rights texts at global and regional levels. Among the instruments considered in the book are the International Covenants on Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, and the ILO Conventions on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.
-were-killed-during-attacks-myanmar . Murphy , M. ( 2017 ), The Economization of Life ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press ). Najibi , A. ( 2020 ), ‘ Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology ’, Science in the News Blog, Science Policy , Harvard University , 24 October, https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020
In May 1958, and four years into the Algerian War of Independence, a revolt again appropriated the revolutionary and republican symbolism of the French Revolution by seizing power through a Committee of Public Safety. This book explores why a repressive colonial system that had for over a century maintained the material and intellectual backwardness of Algerian women now turned to an extensive programme of 'emancipation'. After a brief background sketch of the situation of Algerian women during the post-war decade, it discusses the various factors contributed to the emergence of the first significant women's organisations in the main urban centres. It was only after the outbreak of the rebellion in 1954 and the arrival of many hundreds of wives of army officers that the model of female interventionism became dramatically activated. The French military intervention in Algeria during 1954-1962 derived its force from the Orientalist current in European colonialism and also seemed to foreshadow the revival of global Islamophobia after 1979 and the eventual moves to 'liberate' Muslim societies by US-led neo-imperialism in Afghanistan and Iraq. For the women of Bordj Okhriss, as throughout Algeria, the French army represented a dangerous and powerful force associated with mass destruction, brutality and rape. The central contradiction facing the mobile socio-medical teams teams was how to gain the trust of Algerian women and to bring them social progress and emancipation when they themselves were part of an army that had destroyed their villages and driven them into refugee camps.
1 Introduction David Keane and Annapurna Waughray The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change –even radical change –possible. –Ralph Bunche, Nobel Lecture (1950)1 The origins of ICERD On 21 December 1965, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)2 was adopted in the United Nations General Assembly in plenary session by 106 votes to none.3 ICERD was the first international human rights treaty, and the first major piece of international law in the drafting of which the
280 Conclusion David Keane and Annapurna Waughray The United Nations does not seek a world cut after a single pattern, nor does it consider this desirable. The United Nations seeks only unity, not uniformity, out of the world’s diversity. –Ralph Bunche, Nobel Lecture (1950)1 The collection has charted the forces behind the drafting and entry into force of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in 1965, and in the fifty years of its implementation under the aegis of the Committee on the Elimination of
122 Groups and general recommendations These news stories, one from India and one from the UK, provide a snapshot of manifestations of caste-based discrimination as a contemporary, global phenomenon. In both cases the ground of discrimination referred to was caste, a form of social organisation based on inherited status, traditionally associated with South Asia. This chapter explains and assesses the role of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/the Committee) in the conceptualisation of discrimination on grounds of caste as a form of
traditional mechanisms like the Rwandan gacaca. Its frameworks are mostly based on international human rights and international humanitarian law. The International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD/the Convention), the foremost human rights convention that seeks to address racial discrimination, has not been part of the framework for analysing conflicts and human rights violations in transitional justice processes.13 Yet available literature suggest that a major cause of some contemporary forms of conflict 8 Lydia A. Nkansah