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9 Descent-based Discrimination

Peoples for Human Rights Vol. 9, October 2004
Descent-based Discrimination

CONTENTS

  • Editorial Introduction: Racial Discrimination Based on Descent : A Challenge for All Human Beings (Mario Jorge Yutzis)

    • Part One: Regional or/and National Dimensions
    South Asia
  • Discrimination on the Basis of Race, Color and Religion (Bhagwan Das)

  • Dalit Women (Burnad Fathima Natesan)

  • The Jogini System (Mallela Grace Nirmala)

    • East Asia
  • ICERD and Buraku Discrimination (Kenzo Tomonaga)

  • Buraku Discrimination and I (Shigeyuki Kumisaka)

    • African Region
  • The Existence and Implications of Discrimination Based on Descent in Africa (Alexander Stevens)

  • My Testimonial on the Watta Community of Northern Kenya (Ibrahim Kosi Galgalo)

    • Part Two: Initiatives at the UN
  • CERD General Recommendation on Discrimination based on Descent: Contribution and Empowerment of Affected Communities (Atsuko Tanaka)

  • Race, Descent and Caste under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Patrick Thornberry)

  • Eliminating discrimination based on descent: The role of the UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights (Asbjorn Eide)

  • Caste Wars at the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: A commentary on the Sub-Commission's on-going examination of discrimination based on work and descent (Peter N. Prove)

    • Appendix
    Sub-Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2000/4 "Discrimination based on work and descent" (Fifty-second session, 2000)
    CERD General recommendation XXIX on article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) (Sixty-first session, 2002)

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