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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 4c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committee calls in particular upon States parties to:] Provide indigenous peoples with conditions allowing for a sustainable economic and social development compatible with their cultural characteristics; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1997 | ||
Racial discrimination against people of African descent 2011, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] Racism and structural discrimination against people of African descent, rooted in the infamous regime of slavery, are evident in the situations of inequality affecting them and reflected, inter alia, in the following domains: their grouping, together with indigenous peoples, among the poorest of the poor; their low rate of participation and representation in political and institutional decision-making processes; additional difficulties they face in access to and completion and quality of education, which results in the transmission of poverty from generation to generation; inequality in access to the labour market; limited social recognition and valuation of their ethnic and cultural diversity; and a disproportionate presence in prison populations. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2011 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to an independent and impartial tribunal] In the case of persons belonging to indigenous peoples, States parties should give preference to alternatives to imprisonment and to other forms of punishment that are better adapted to their legal system, bearing in mind in particular International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 |
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