Race Discrimination
14 December 2012
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The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
What is CERD? The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1966 (CERD) (the Convention) was one of the first human rights treaties to be adopted by the United Nations. More than 156 countries (four-fifths of the membership of the UN) have ratified the Convention; including Australia, which ratified the Convention on 30 September 1975. What is the CERD Committee? To…
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