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Judge Linos-Alexander Sicilianos

Judge Linos-Alexander Sicilianos
Judge, European Court of Human Rights, Professor of Law, University of Athens

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Human Rights
Racial Discrimination
The Application of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Challenges Ahead
My submission is that the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is nowadays more relevant than ever and that it covers a broad range of discriminatory practices concerning hundreds of millions of people throughout the globe.

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(7/8/2008, 43 minutes)
Human Rights
Racial Discrimination
The Application of the United Nations Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Challenges Ahead
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A. Legal Instruments
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York, 18 December 1979, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, p. 13.
B. Documents

Annual Reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the General Assembly, 2000-2008 (A/55/18 [2000], A/56/18 [2001], A/57/18 [2002], A/58/18 [2003], A/59/18 [2004], A/60/18 [2005], A/61/18 [2006], A/62/18 [2007], A/63/18 [2008], A/64/18 [2009], A/65/18 [2010], A/66/18 [2011], A/67/18 [2012]).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation XXV on gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination (A/55/18, 20 March 2000).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation XXVII on discrimination against Roma (A/55/18, 16 August 2000).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation XXIX on descent-based discrimination (A/57/18, 11 January 2002).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation XXX on discrimination against non-citizens (A/59/18, 10 January 2004).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation XXXI on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system (A/60/18).

Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and its Effectiveness (E/CN.4/2004/WG.21/10/Add.1).

For more information on the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, see the official website.
C. Doctrine

M. Banton, International Action Against Racial Discrimination, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.

M. Bidault, Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale. Analyse d’une dynamique institutionnelle, Montchrestien, Paris, 1997.

R. De Gouttes, “Le rôle du Comité des Nations Unies pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale”, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme, vol. 12, 2001, pp. 567-584.

J. Dhommeaux, “Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale: 15 ans de jurisprudence”, L’Europe des libertés, November 2003, pp. 3-13.

D. Keane, “Descent-based Discrimination in International Law: A Legal History”, 11 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2005), pp. 93-116.

N. Lerner, The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Alphen aan den Rijn, Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1980.

E. Schwelb, “The International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 15, 1966, pp. 996 seq.

L.A. Sicilianos, “Les potentialités de la Convention pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale. – À propos de la Recommandation générale concernant la discrimination fondée sur l’ascendance”, in  Libertés, justice, tolérance. Mélanges en hommage au Doyen Gérard Cohen-Jonathan, vol. II, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2004, pp. 1385-1397.

L.A. Sicilianos, “L’actualité et les potentialités de la Convention sur l’élimination de la discrimination raciale. À propos du 40e anniversaire de son adoption”, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme, vol. 16, 2005, pp. 869-921.

P. Thornberry, The International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Oxford University Press, Oxford (forthcoming).

L. Valencia Rodriguez, “The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”, Manual on Human Rights Reporting, United Nations, Geneva, 1997 (HR/PUB/91/1, Rev. 1), pp. 267-304.