Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Monitoring racial equality and non-discrimination
![[Image: Friends in Accro, Israel. UN Photo# 149179C]](/web/20070926222651im_/http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/photos/149179.jpg) The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties.
All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Convention and then every two years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of “concluding observations”.
In addition to the reporting procedure, the Convention establishes three other mechanisms through which the Committee performs its monitoring functions: the early-warning procedure, the examination of inter-state complaints and the examination of individual complaints.
![[Image: A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. (UN Photo# 151906C)]](/web/20070926222651im_/http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/photos/151906.jpg) The Committee meets in Geneva and normally holds two sessions per year consisting of three weeks each.
The Committee also publishes its interpretation of the content of human rights provisions, known as general recommendations (or general comments), on thematic issues and organizes thematic discussions.
For more information about the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, click here.
New Publication
Now available in PDF
Compilación de observaciones finales del Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial sobre países de América Latina y el Caribe (1970-2006)
A compilation of CRC concluding observations for Latin American and Caribbean countries in their original languages. Contains all of the concluding observations of the Committee from 1970 to 2006 relating to Spanish-speaking countries in Spanish, English-speaking countries (as well as Brazil) in English, and Francophone countries in French.
Published by OHCHR Regional Office, Santiago, Chile
To download a copy (2.37MB), click on the cover page |
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