African Descendants
- Fri May 09 2008
Venue and duration of 2009 anti-racism review conference to be decided on 26 May
A two-week meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the review conference on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance ended in Geneva on 2 May after agreeing to to postpone decisions on where to hold the review conference, although it is likely to be in one of the four UN centres of Geneva, Nairobi, New York or Vienna.
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Migration
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Will migrant workers pay the price of their exploitation?
Ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs European Union Council on 17-18 April, ENAR, PICUM, Solidar, and a number of other organisations remind EU Ministers of the crucial need to follow a human rights-based approach in taking forward the proposed EU Directive providing for sanctions against employers of irregular third country nationals.Pdf.
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Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Thu Apr 10 2008
Preparatory Committee on the Durban Review Conference
The Durban Review Conference will hold the 2nd session of its Preparatory Committee on 21 April – 2 May 2008 and begin consideration of substantive issues.
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Human Rights
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Wed Mar 12 2008
United Nations panel finds two-tier society
The United States government is drawing fire from international legal experts for its treatment of American Indians, Blacks, Latinos and other racial minorities.
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Human Rights
/African Descendants
- Wed Feb 20 2008
Civil society to prepare for the Durban Review Conference
The 1st Regional Workshop on the Durban Review Conference 2009 will be held in Bangkok on 25-26 February 2008, organized by FORUM-ASIA and the International Movement against All Forms of Racial Discrimination (IMADR).
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African Descendants
- Thu Aug 23 2007
Afro-Peruvians not getting vital aid
One week after Peru’s deadly earthquake crucial humanitarian relief including food, water and medicine are still not reaching the country’s Afro-descendent community who were worst affected.
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Human Rights
/African Descendants
- Tue Aug 07 2007
Durban Review Conference
The Preparatory Committee for the Durban Review Conference will hold its first organizational session in Geneva from 27 to 31 August 2007 pursuant to General Assembly Resolution and Human Rights Council Resolution on the Preparations for the Durban Review Conference.
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African Descendants
- Wed Mar 21 2007
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
"Racial discrimination is wrong and harmful in itself. It is a denial of human rights, an affront to human dignity and a direct assault on the foundation of the human rights edifice –the principle of equality".
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Social Development
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Mon Dec 11 2006
Ethnic structure, inequality and governance of the public sector
This project examines the complex ways ethnic cleavages and inequalities affect social cohesion or consensus in the public sector under conditions of democratization.
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Education
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Wed Jul 26 2006
Brazil: race quotas accused of racism
The imminent approval of a law that establishes obligatory quotas for Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples at public universities, has sparked a resurgence of the controversy about how to combat racism and inequality in Brazil.
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