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The committee on the elimination of racial discrimination fact sheet no. 12

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intended to assist an eve-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery availabe to help realize those rights. Racial discrimination, nevertheless, remains a stumbling block to the full realization of human rights. In spite of progress in some areas, distinctions, exclusions, restrictions and preferences based on race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin, continue to create and embitter conflict, and cause untold suffering and loss of life. The fundamental injustice of racial discrimination, no less than the dangers it represents, has made its elimination a target of action by the United Nations. Mounting international concern over racial discrimination led the United Nations General Assembly, in 1963, to take the formal step of adopting the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which makes four principal points: Any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous and has no justification in theory or practice; Racial discrimination-and more so, government policies based on racial superiority or hatredviolate fundamental human rights, endanger friendly.

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Series Title

World Campaign for Human Rights

Call Number

KP.1 INT c

Publisher

Jenewa : United Nations., 2006

Collation

31p. 21cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

10145567

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KP.1

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Hak asasi manusia
racial discrimination

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