Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status 2016, para. 104
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The issue of discrimination based on descent and, in particular, caste-based discrimination, has been gaining momentum in the United Nations system for the past two decades. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has been instrumental, as it first addressed discrimination based on caste and on similar forms of social hierarchy as a form of discrimination based on descent, as provided in article 1 (1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and has also addressed the issue in its reviews of affected States. The adoption of general recommendation No. 29 (2002) consolidated the Committee's interpretation of article 1 (1) and formulated a global definition of caste-based discrimination: "discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status".