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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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Right to self-determination 1996, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In order to respect fully the rights of all peoples within a State, Governments are again called upon to adhere to and implement fully the international human rights instruments and in particular the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Concern for the protection of individual rights without discrimination on racial, ethnic, tribal, religious or other grounds must guide the policies of Governments. In accordance with article 2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and other relevant international documents, Governments should be sensitive towards the rights of persons belonging to ethnic groups, particularly their right to lead lives of dignity, to preserve their culture, to share equitably in the fruits of national growth and to play their part in the Government of the country of which they are citizens. Also, Governments should consider, within their respective constitutional frameworks, vesting persons belonging to ethnic or linguistic groups comprised of their citizens, where appropriate, with the right to engage in activities which are particularly relevant to the preservation of the identity of such persons or groups. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1996 | ||
Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Strongly condemning descent-based discrimination, such as discrimination on the basis of caste and analogous systems of inherited status, as a violation of the Convention, | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2002 | ||
Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee further calls upon States parties with indigenous peoples in their territories to include in their periodic reports full information on the situation of such peoples, taking into account all relevant provisions of the Convention. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 4e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committee calls in particular upon States parties to:] Ensure that indigenous communities can exercise their rights to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs and to preserve and to practise their languages. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1997 | ||
Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 4a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committee calls in particular upon States parties to:] Recognize and respect indigenous distinct culture, history, language and way of life as an enrichment of the State's cultural identity and to promote its preservation; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Right to self-determination 1996, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee notes that ethnic or religious groups or minorities frequently refer to the right to self determination as a basis for an alleged right to secession. In this connection the Committee wishes to express the following views. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1996 | ||
Combatting racist hate speech 2013, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Racist hate speech addressed in Committee practice has included all the specific speech forms referred to in article 4 directed against groups recognized in article 1 of the Convention - which forbids discrimination on grounds of race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin - such as indigenous peoples, descent-based groups, and immigrants or non-citizens, including migrant domestic workers, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as speech directed against women members of these and other vulnerable groups. In the light of the principle of intersectionality, and bearing in mind that "criticism of religious leaders or commentary on religious doctrine or tenets of faith" should not be prohibited or punished, the Committee's attention has also been engaged by hate speech targeting persons belonging to certain ethnic groups who profess or practice a religion different from the majority, including expressions of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other similar manifestations of hatred against ethno-religious groups, as well as extreme manifestations of hatred such as incitement to genocide and to terrorism. Stereotyping and stigmatization of members of protected groups has also been the subject of expressions of concern and recommendations adopted by the Committee. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2013 | ||
Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Strongly reaffirming that discrimination based on "descent" 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee is conscious of the fact that in many regions of the world indigenous peoples have been, and are still being, discriminated against and deprived of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and in particular that they have lost their land and resources to colonists, commercial companies and State enterprises. Consequently, the preservation of their culture and their historical identity has been and still is jeopardized. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial Discrimination 2009, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special measures should not be confused with specific rights pertaining to certain categories of person or community, such as, for example the rights of persons belonging to minorities to enjoy their own culture, profess and practise their own religion and use their own language, the rights of indigenous peoples, including rights to lands traditionally occupied by them, and rights of women to non-identical treatment with men, such as the provision of maternity leave, on account of biological differences from men. Such rights are permanent rights, recognized as such in human rights instruments, including those adopted in the context of the United Nations and its specialized agencies. States parties should carefully observe distinctions between special measures and permanent human rights in their law and practice. The distinction between special measures and permanent rights implies that those entitled to permanent rights may also enjoy the benefits of special measures. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Combatting racist hate speech 2013, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Measures should be adopted in the field of education aimed at encouraging knowledge of the history, culture and traditions of "racial or ethnical" groups present in the State party, including indigenous peoples and persons of African descent. Educational materials should, in the interests of promoting mutual respect and understanding, endeavour to highlight the contribution of all groups to the social, economic and cultural enrichment of the national identity and to national, economic and social progress. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 5e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [States parties should pursue national strategies the objectives of which include the following:] To ensure respect for, and recognition of the traditional systems of justice of indigenous peoples, in conformity with international human rights law; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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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Racial discrimination against people of African descent 2011, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] Take steps to identify communities of people of African descent living in their territories, especially through the collection of disaggregated data on the population, bearing in mind the Committee's general recommendations, particularly general recommendations Nos. 4 (1973) on demographic composition of the population (art. 9); 8 (1990) on identification with a particular racial or ethnic group (art. 1, paras. 1 and 4), and 24 (1999) on reporting of persons belonging to different races, national/ethnic groups, or indigenous peoples (art. 1). | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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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Article 1 of the Convention 1999, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Some States parties fail to collect data on the ethnic or national origin of their citizens or of other persons living on their territory, but decide at their own discretion which groups constitute ethnic groups or indigenous peoples that are to be recognized and treated as such. The Committee believes that there is an international standard concerning the specific rights of people belonging to such groups, together with generally recognized norms concerning equal rights for all and non discrimination, including those incorporated in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. At the same time, the Committee draws to the attention of States parties that the application of different criteria in order to determine ethnic groups or indigenous peoples, leading to the recognition of some and refusal to recognize others, may give rise to differing treatment for various groups within a country's population. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Rights of indigenous peoples 1997, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee especially calls upon States parties to recognize and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to own, develop, control and use their communal lands, territories and resources and, where they have been deprived of their lands and territories traditionally owned or otherwise inhabited or used without their free and informed consent, to take steps to return those lands and territories. Only when this is for factual reasons not possible, the right to restitution should be substituted by the right to just, fair and prompt compensation. Such compensation should as far as possible take the form of lands and territories. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Right to self-determination 1996, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee emphasizes that in accordance with the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, it is the duty of States to promote the right to self determination of peoples. But the implementation of the principle of self determination requires every State to promote, through joint and separate action, universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. In this context the Committee draws the attention of Governments to the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Right to self-determination 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The right to self determination of peoples is a fundamental principle of international law. It is enshrined in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations, in article 1 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as in other international human rights instruments. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides for the rights of peoples to self determination besides the right of ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion or to use their own language. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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