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Elimination
of racism and radial discrimination
Date of
consideration: 7-8
November 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/501
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Documents:
A/C.3/60/4 [F]
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Letter dated
25 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Belarus to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/C.3/60/12 [F]
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Letter dated
14 November 2005 from the Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Botswana to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/18 [F]
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Report of the
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Suppl.
No. 18)
A/60/283 [F]
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Note by the
Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on contemporary forms
of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance
A/60/307 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on global efforts for the total elimination of
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
A/60/440-S/2005/658
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A/60/440/Corr.1-S/2005/658/Corr.1
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A/60/440/Corr.2-S/2005/658/Corr.2
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Letter
dated 17 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Yemen
to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary:
At its
forty-eighth session, in 1993, following a recommendation by
the World Conference on Human Rights, the General Assembly
proclaimed the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous
People (1994-2004) (resolution
48/163).
(a)
Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
Status of
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination
At its twentieth session, in
1965, the General Assembly adopted the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (resolution 2106 A (XX)). The Convention
entered into force on 4 January 1969.
As at 9 June
2005, 170 States had ratified or acceded to the Convention.
Report of
the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In accordance
with article 8 of the Convention, the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination consists of 18 experts.
Members of the Committee are elected for a term of four years
and are eligible for re-election. At present, the Committee is
composed of the following members:
Mr. Mahmoud
Aboul-Nasr (Egypt),* Mr. Nourredine Amir (Algeria),* Mr. Alexei S. Avtonomov (Russian Federation),** Mr. Ralph F. Boyd Jr. (United States of America),** Mr. José Francisco Cali Tzay
(Guatemala),** Ms. Fatimata Binta Victoire Dah (Burkina
Faso),** Mr. Régis de Gouttes (France),* Mr. Kurt Herndl
(Austria),* Ms. Patricia Nozipho January-Bardill (South
Africa),** Mr. Morten Kjaerum (Denmark),* Mr. José A. Lindgren Alves (Brazil),* Mr. Raghavan Vasudevan Pillai (India),** Mr. Agha Shahi (Pakistan),* Mr. Linos Alexander Sicilianos
(Greece),* Mr. Tang Chengyuan (China),** Mr. Patrick
Thornberry (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland),* Mr. Luis Valencia Rodríguez (Ecuador)** and Mr. Mario Jorge Yutzis (Argentina).**
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* Term
of office expires on 19 January 2006.
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Term of office expires on 19 January 2008.
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Under article 9 of the Convention, the Committee reports annually, through
the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly on its
activities and may make suggestions and recommendations based
on the examination of reports and information received from
States parties to the Convention.
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly decided to consider
at its sixty-first session the reports of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its sixty-sixth and
sixty-seventh and its sixty-eighth and sixty-ninth sessions,
the report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation
of the Committee and the report of the Secretary-General on
the status of the Convention (resolution
59/176).
Measures to
be taken against political platforms and activities based on
doctrines of superiority and violent nationalist ideologies
which are based on racial discrimination or ethnic
exclusiveness and xenophobia, including neo-Nazism
The General
Assembly considered this question at its thirty-fifth to
thirty-ninth sessions, forty-first, forty-third, fifty-fifth
and fifty-sixth sessions (resolutions 35/200, 36/162, 37/179,
38/99, 39/114, 41/160, 43/150, 55/82 and 56/268).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly urged States to take
all available measures in accordance with their obligations
under international human rights instruments to combat
political platforms and activities based on doctrines of
superiority and violent nationalist ideologies which are based
on racial discrimination or ethnic exclusiveness and
xenophobia; and requested the Secretary-General to bring the
resolution to the attention of the Member States and relevant
human rights bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations
system (resolution
59/175).
At the same
session, the General Assembly requested the Special Rapporteur
of the Commission on Human Rights on contemporary forms of
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance to submit an interim report to the Assembly at its
sixtieth session (resolution
59/177, sect. IV).
(b)
Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action
At its
fifty-sixth session, the General Assembly endorsed the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 8 September
2001 by the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
(A/CONF.189/12); and requested the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, in follow-up to the Conference,
to report annually to the General Assembly and the Commission
on Human Rights (resolution
56/266).
The General
Assembly considered the question at its fifty-seventh and
fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions
57/195, sect. III, and
58/160, sect. III, and decision 57/532).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly emphasized that the
basic responsibility for effectively combating racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance lay with
States; decided that the General Assembly, the Economic and
Social Council and the Commission on Human Rights should
constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental process for the
comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action (resolution
59/177,
sect. III); and requested the Secretary-General to submit a
report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly
at its sixtieth session (resolution 59/177, sect. V).
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