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Mr. Michał Balcerzak

Mr. Michał Balcerzak
Associate Professor
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
University of Szczecin
Vice-Chairperson
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Human Rights
Racial Discrimination
The Law and Practice of the UN Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Human Rights
Racial Discrimination
The Law and Practice of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
A. Legal Instruments

General Assembly Resolution 18/1904 of 20 November 1963 (United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination).

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, New York, 21 December 1965, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, p. 195.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Vienna, 23 May 1969, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1155, p. 331.

International Law Commission, Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, 2001.

B. Documents

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Rules of procedure of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CERD/C/35/REV.3, 1986.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Rules of procedure of the meetings of the State Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, CERD/SP/2/REV.1, 10 November 1987.

General Assembly Resolution 47/120 of 18 Dec. 1992 (An Agenda for Peace: preventive diplomacy and related matters).

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General recommendation No. 36 (2020) on preventing and combating racial profiling by law enforcement officials (CERD/C/GC/36), 17 December 2020.

C. Other Documents

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Inter State communications Qatar v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar v. United Arab Emirates, see the website of the Committee: https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cerd/inter-state-communications

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Inter State communication State of Palestine v. Israel, see the website of the Committee: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/TBSearch.aspx?Lang=en&TreatyID=6&DocTypeID=187