Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status 2016, para. 49
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In its general recommendation No. 29 (2002), on article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination confirmed that the term "descent" did not solely refer to "race" and unequivocally established that descent based discrimination "includes discrimination against members of communities based on forms of social stratification such as caste and analogous systems of inherited status which nullify or impair their equal enjoyment of human rights".