GENEVA (2 August, 2019) — The UN
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will meet in Geneva from
5 to 29 August 2019 to review Czechia, El Salvador, Iceland, Mexico, Mongolia,
Poland, and the State of Palestine.
The above are among the 181 Statesparties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, and so are required to undergo regular reviews on how
they are implementing the Convention and the Committee’s previous
recommendations. The Committee will hold dialogues with delegations from the
respective governments and be briefed by NGOs, national human rights
institutions and independent monitoring frameworks.
The public sessions will be held in
Room XVI at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A full programme of work is
available on-line.
The recommended hashtag for the
meeting is #CERD99 and the sessions will be webcast live at
http://webtv.un.org/live .
Further information about the
session is available on the Web page for the session.
Information about media
accreditation is also available on-line.
The Committee is scheduled to
publish its findings on the respective States on 29 August 2019.
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Background
The Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination monitors States parties’ adherence to the Convention onthe Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee is made up
of 18 members who are independent human rights experts drawn from around the
world, who serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of
States parties. The Committee’s concluding observations are an independent
assessment of States’ compliance with their human rights obligations under the
treaty.
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the UN Human Rights Office Media Section at +41 (0) 22 928 9855 or by e-mail to
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