Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A living instrument

by David Keane (Editor), Annapurna Waughray (Editor)

Overview

This is the very first edited collection on International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the oldest of the UN international human rights treaties. It draws together a range of commentators including current or former members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), along with academic and other experts, to discuss the meaning and relevance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary. The contributions examine the shift from a narrow understanding of racial discrimination in the 1960s, premised on countering colonialism and apartheid, to a wider meaning today drawing in a range of groups such as minorities, indigenous peoples, caste groups, and Afro-descendants. In its unique combination of CERD and expert analysis, the collection acts as an essential guide to the international understanding of racial discrimination and the pathway towards its elimination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526116499
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	10/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	712 KB

About the Author

David Keane is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at Middlesex University, London

Annapurna Waughray is Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Metropolitan University

Table of Contents

Introduction - David Keane and Annapurna Waughray

Part I: ICERD: Cross-cutting themes

1. Extending the rule of law - Michael Banton

2. Knowing and doing with numbers: Disaggregated data in the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Joshua Clark

3. Racial discrimination and gender justice - Nozipho January-Bardill

Part II: Groups and General Recommendations

4. CERD's contribution to the development of the rights of indigenous peoples under international law - J r mie Gilbert

5. CERD and discrimination against Roma - Claude Cahn

6. CERD and caste-based discrimimation - Annapurna Waughray and David Keane

7. CERD General Recommendation 34: A contribution to the visibility and inclusion of Afro-descendants in Latin America - Pastor Murillo and Esther Ojulari

Part III: Conflict and Resolution

8. Genocide and the ICERD - William Schabas

9. CERD, the State, mining corporations and indigenous peoples' rights: The experience of the Subanon in the Philippines - Cathal Doyle

10. ICERD in the post-conflict landscape: Towards a transitional justice role - Lydia Nkansah

Part IV: Present and Future of ICERD

11. How effective has CERD been in protecting minorities? - Joshua Castellino

12. General Recommendation 35 on combating racist hate speech - Tarlach McGonagle

13. ICERD: The next 50 years - Ion Diaconu

Conclusion - David Keane and Annapurna Waughray