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The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March since declared by the United Nations in 1966. In South Africa, the country in which the event took place that gave rise to the observance, the Sharpeville Massacre, the day is commemorated as Human Rights Day, and is a public holiday.
The Declaration follows the structure of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with a preamble followed by eleven articles. Article 1 declares that discrimination on the basis of race, colour or ethnicity is "an offence to human dignity" and condemns it as a violation of the principles underlying the United Nations Charter, a violation of human rights and a threat to peace and security.
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention. A third-generation human rights instrument, the Convention commits its members to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races. [6]
The International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015–2024, [1] was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in a Resolution (68/237) adopted on 23 December 2013. [2] The theme of the International Decade was "People of African descent: recognition, justice and development".
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OPINION: We read every page of Project 2025 and compared it to Trump’s Agenda47 to see what a second Trump administration has in store for Black America.
Proposals on the biological aspects of race (Moscow, August 1964) Statement on race and racial prejudice (Paris, September 1967) Other statements include the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1963), the "Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice" (1978) and the "Declaration of Principles on Tolerance" (1995).
Entitled "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance", the conference was discussing unfair treatment of one group against another. Significant time was focused specifically on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, [3] treating violations of human rights and genocide in other parts of the world ...