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Fifty Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Living Instrument

David Keane and Annapurna Waughray

Abstract

Fifty Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. With a major Introduction and 13 chapters, 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.

Keywords: ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination), CERD (Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination), Living instrument, Race / Racial discrimination, United Nations

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9781784993047
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2018 DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781784993047.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

David Keane, editor
Middlesex University

Annapurna Waughray, editor
Manchester Metropolitan University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

David Keane and Annapurna Waughray

Part I ICERD: cross-cutting themes

Chapter 1 Extending the rule of law

Michael Banton

Chapter 2 Knowing and doing with numbers: disaggregated data in the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Joshua Clark

Chapter 3 Racial discrimination and gender justice

Nozipho January-Bardill

Part II Groups and general recommendations

Chapter 4 CERD’s contribution to the development of the rights of indigenous peoples under international law

Jérémie Gilbert*

Chapter 5 CERD and discrimination against Roma

Claude Cahn*

Chapter 6 CERD and caste-based discrimination

Annapurna Waughray and David Keane

Chapter 7 General Recommendation 34: a contribution to the visibility and inclusion of Afro-descendants in Latin America

Pastor Murillo and Esther Ojulari

Part III Conflict and resolution

Chapter 8 Genocide and the ICERD

William Schabas

Chapter 9 CERD, the State, mining corporations and indigenous peoples’ rights: the experience of the Subanon in the Philippines

Cathal Doyle*

Chapter 10 ICERD in the post-conflict landscape: towards a transitional justice role

Lydia A. Nkansah

Part IV Present and future of ICERD

Chapter 11 How effective has CERD been in protecting minorities?

Joshua Castellino

Chapter 12 General Recommendation 35 on combating racist hate speech

Tarlach McGonagle*

Chapter 13 ICERD: the next fifty years

Ion Diaconu

Conclusion

David Keane and Annapurna Waughray

End Matter

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Index