Fifth session (1972)
General recommendation II concerning States parties’ obligations
The Committee has considered some reports from States parties which expressed or implied
the belief that the information mentioned in the Committee’s communication of 28 January 1970
(CERD/C/R.12), need not be supplied by States parties on whose territories racial discrimination does
not exist.
However, inasmuch as, in accordance with article 9, paragraph 1, of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, all States parties undertake to
submit reports on the measures that they have adopted and that give effect to the provisions of the
Convention and, since all the categories of information listed in the Committee’s communication of
28 January 1970 refer to obligations undertaken by the States parties under the Convention, that
communication is addressed to all States parties without distinction, whether or not racial
discrimination exists in their respective territories. The Committee welcomes the inclusion in the
reports from all States parties, which have not done so, of the necessary information in conformity
with all the headings set out in the aforementioned communication of the Committee.
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