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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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Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 55h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That a national system of compulsory, accessible and free birth registration is established in order to effectively prevent harmful practices, including child marriage; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 87b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Establish a free, 24-hour hotline that is staffed by trained counsellors, to enable victims to report instances when a harmful practice is likely to occur or has occurred, and provide referral to needed services and accurate information about harmful practices; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 55d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That the legislation is consistent and comprehensive and provides detailed guidance on prevention, protection, support and follow-up services and assistance for victims, including towards their physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration, and is complemented by adequate civil and/or administrative legislative provisions; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to the presumption of innocence] This right implies that the police authorities, the judicial authorities and other public authorities must be forbidden to express their opinions publicly concerning the guilt of the accused before the court reaches a decision, much less to cast suspicion in advance on the members of a specific racial or ethnic group. These authorities have an obligation to ensure that the mass media do not disseminate information which might stigmatize certain categories of persons, particularly those belonging to the groups referred to in the last paragraph of the preamble. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Racial discrimination against people of African descent 2011, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] Also ensure the protection of the security and integrity of people of African descent without any discrimination by adopting measures for preventing racially motivated acts of violence against them; ensure prompt action by the police, prosecutors and the judiciary for investigating and punishing such acts; and ensure that perpetrators, be they public officials or other persons, do not enjoy impunity. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2011 | ||
Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference 2009, para. 2e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also recommends that:] The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights continue its efforts to increase awareness of and support for the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, including through webcasting of the meetings of the Committee, and to provide the Committee with adequate resources to enable it to discharge its mandate fully, as part of the overall endeavour to strengthen the work of the treaty bodies; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2009 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 1f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [States parties should pay the greatest attention to the following possible indicators of racial discrimination:] The handing down by the courts of harsher or inappropriate sentences against persons belonging to those groups; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 1g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [States parties should pay the greatest attention to the following possible indicators of racial discrimination:] The insufficient representation of persons belonging to those groups among the ranks of the police, in the system of justice, including judges and jurors, and in other law enforcement departments. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] In order for these factual indicators to be well known and used, States parties should embark on regular and public collection of information from police, judicial and prison authorities and immigration services, while respecting standards of confidentiality, anonymity and protection of personal data. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] Any refusal by a police official to accept a complaint involving an act of racism should lead to disciplinary or penal sanctions, and those sanctions should be increased if corruption is involved. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 19d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [States parties should ensure that the system of justice:] Guarantees victims just and adequate reparation for the material and moral harm suffered as a result of racial discrimination. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 2002, para. 1f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends to States:] To take into account the relevant parts of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action when implementing the Convention in the domestic legal order, in particular in respect of articles 2 to 7 of the Convention; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2002 | ||
Follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 2002, para. 1h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends to States:] To disseminate the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action in an appropriate manner and provide the Committee with information on the efforts in this respect under the section of their periodic reports concerning article 7 of the Convention; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2002 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 4a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The following should be regarded as indicators of potential causes of racial discrimination:] Any gaps in domestic legislation on racial discrimination. In this regard, States parties should fully comply with the requirements of article 4 of the Convention and criminalize all acts of racism as provided by that article, in particular the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial hatred, violence or incitement to racial violence, but also racist propaganda activities and participation in racist organizations. States parties are also encouraged to incorporate a provision in their criminal legislation to the effect that committing offences for racial reasons generally constitutes an aggravating circumstance; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] The competent services should be instructed to receive the victims of acts of racism in police stations in a satisfactory manner, so that complaints are recorded immediately, investigations are pursued without delay and in an effective, independent and impartial manner, and files relating to racist or xenophobic incidents are retained and incorporated into databases. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Racial discrimination against people of African descent 2011, para. 4b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [People of African descent live in many countries of the world, either dispersed among the local population or in communities, where they are entitled to exercise, without discrimination, individually or in community with other members of their group, as appropriate, the following specific rights:] The right to their cultural identity, to keep, maintain and foster their mode of life and forms of organization, culture, languages and religious expressions; | 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. 17c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [In order to make it easier for the victims of acts of racism to bring actions in the courts, the steps to be taken should include the following:] Ensuring that victims have information about the progress of the proceedings; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Discrimination against non-citizens 2004, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends,] [Based on these general principles, that the States parties to the Convention, as appropriate to their specific circumstances, adopt the following measures:] Ensure the right of non-citizens, without discrimination based on race, colour, descent, and national or ethnic origin, to have access to any place or service intended for use by the general public, such as transport, hotels, restaurants, cafés, theatres and parks; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] States parties should ensure the observance of the general principle of proportionality and strict necessity in recourse to force against persons belonging to the groups referred to in the last paragraph of the preamble, in accordance with the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial Discrimination 2009, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Reports of States parties should describe special measures in relation to any articles of the Convention to which the measures are related. The reports of States parties should also provide information, as appropriate, on:] Information on reasons why, in the light of situations that appear to justify the adoption of measures, such measures have not been taken. | 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. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] States parties should prevent and most severely punish violence, acts of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and all violations of human rights affecting persons belonging to the groups referred to in the last paragraph of the preamble which are committed by State officials, particularly police and army personnel, customs authorities, and persons working in airports, penal institutions and social, medical and psychiatric services. | 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. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to an independent and impartial tribunal] States parties may, in this regard, take into account the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct adopted in 2002 (E/CN.4/2003/65, annex), which recommend in particular that: They should oppose the manifestation of prejudice by the persons under their direction and by lawyers or their adoption of discriminatory behaviour towards a person or group on the basis of their colour, racial, national, religious or sexual origin, or on other irrelevant grounds. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2004 | ||
Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system 2004, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to an independent and impartial tribunal] Special attention should be paid in this regard to the system of minimum punishments and obligatory detention applicable to certain offences and to capital punishment in countries which have not abolished it, bearing in mind reports that this punishment is imposed and carried out more frequently against persons belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. | 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. 17b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [In order to make it easier for the victims of acts of racism to bring actions in the courts, the steps to be taken should include the following:] Granting victims effective judicial cooperation and legal aid, including the assistance of counsel and an interpreter free of charge; | 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. 17e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [In order to make it easier for the victims of acts of racism to bring actions in the courts, the steps to be taken should include the following:] Providing for the possibility of suspending the functions, for the duration of the investigation, of the agents of the State against whom the complaints were made. | 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. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] In countries where there are assistance and compensation plans for victims, States parties should ensure that such plans are available to all victims without discrimination and regardless of their nationality or residential status. | 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. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to an independent and impartial tribunal] In this regard, States should ensure that the courts do not apply harsher punishments solely because of an accused person's membership of a specific racial or ethnic group. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Discrimination against non-citizens 2004, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends,] [Based on these general principles, that the States parties to the Convention, as appropriate to their specific circumstances, adopt the following measures:] Guarantee the equal enjoyment of the right to adequate housing for citizens and non citizens, especially by avoiding segregation in housing and ensuring that housing agencies refrain from engaging in discriminatory practices; | 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. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Formulates the following recommendations addressed to States parties:] [The right to an independent and impartial tribunal] States parties should strive firmly to ensure a lack of any racial or xenophobic prejudice on the part of judges, jury members and other judicial personnel. | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends that the States parties, as appropriate for their particular circumstances, adopt some or all of the following measures:] Steps to identify those descent-based communities under their jurisdiction who suffer from discrimination, especially on the basis of caste and analogous systems of inherited status, and whose existence may be recognized on the basis of various factors including some or all of the following: inability or restricted ability to alter inherited status; socially enforced restrictions on marriage outside the community; private and public segregation, including in housing and education, access to public spaces, places of worship and public sources of food and water; limitation of freedom to renounce inherited occupations or degrading or hazardous work; subjection to debt bondage; subjection to dehumanizing discourses referring to pollution or untouchability; and generalized lack of respect for their human dignity and equality; | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | General Comment / Recommendation |
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