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UN Committee on Racial Discrimination publish findings
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from 23 April to 10 May: Andorra, Guatemala, Hungary, Lithuania, and Zambia.
The findings contain positive aspects of how the respective State is implementing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, highlight main matters of concern and make recommendations.
The concluding observations are now available on-line on the session Web page.
In other work during its session, the Committee also held private meetings with State parties under its inter-state communications procedure. More information is available on-line.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will next meet from 5 to 29 August to review the following countries: Czech Republic, El Salvador, Iceland, Mexico, Mongolia, Poland and the State of Palestine.
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