The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Author: Patrick Thornberry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019926533X

This Oxford Commentary is the first comprehensive article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It discusses the conceptual and instrumental framework of the Convention and the CERD Committee, and addresses some of the critical challenges confronting the Convention.

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination During Its Consideration of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Periodic Reports of the United States of America, CERD 72nd Session

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination During Its Consideration of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Periodic Reports of the United States of America, CERD 72nd Session
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2008
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

The United States is not meeting its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a treaty the US ratified in 1994. This report, issued on the eve of international review of US compliance with the treaty, documents areas win which the US is falling short of its obligations. It focuses on areas that have been the subject of prior Human Rights Watch research, supplementing the analyses offered by other groups monitoring US performance under the treaty. Subjects detailed here include the failure of federal authorities to inform individual states of their obligations under the treaty, the discriminatory treatment of Haitian refugees by the US, and policies that have the effect of denying health care to many African-Americans with HIV/AIDS. In addition, the report presents new data collected by Human Rights Watch demonstrating that racial disparities in the sentencing of children to life in prison without possibility of parole are more pronounced than the US has acknowledged to date. The report concludes with recommendations of concrete steps US authorities should take to bring the US more fully into compliance with its obligation--P. [4] of cover.

Fifty Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Fifty Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Author: David Keane
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Internation Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965 December 21)
ISBN: 9781526132284

This is an edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its 50th anniversary.