Fifty Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Subtitle: A Living Instrument
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781784993047
Subjects: Racism
Description: "This is the very first edited collection on International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the oldest of the UN international human rights treaties. It draws together a range of commentators including current or former members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), along with academic and other experts, to discuss the meaning and relevance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary. The contributions examine the shift from a narrow understanding of racial discrimination in the 1960s, premised on countering colonialism and apartheid, to a wider meaning today drawing in a range of groups such as minorities, indigenous peoples, caste groups, and Afro-descendants."--