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General Comments or Recommendations

CERD

  • CERD General Recommendation 1 (Article 4: States parties obligations)
  • CERD General Recommendation 2 (Article 9: States parties obligations)
  • CERD General Recommendation 3 (Reporting by States parties)
  • CERD General Recommendation 4 (Article 9: Demographic composition of the population)
  • CERD General Recommendation 5 (Article 7: Reporting by States parties)
  • CERD General Recommendation 6 (Article 9: Overdue reports)
  • CERD General Recommendation 7 (Article 4: Legislation to eradicate racial discrimination)
  • CERD General Recommendation 8 (Art. 1, para. 1, 4: Identification with a particular racial or ethnic group)
  • CERD General Recommendation 9 (Application of Art. 8, para. 1: Independence of experts)
  • CERD General Recommendation 10 (Technical assistance)
  • CERD General Recommendation 11 (Article 1: Non-citizens)
  • CERD General Recommendation 12 (Successor states)
  • CERD General Recommendation 13 (Training of law enforcement officials in the protection of human rights)
  • CERD General Recommendation 14 (Art. 2, para. 1: Definition of discrimination)
  • CERD General Recommendation 15 (Article 4: Organized violence based on ethnic origin)
  • CERD General Recommendation 16 (Article 9: References to situations existing in other States)
  • CERD General Recommendation 17 (Establishment of national institutions to facilitate implementation of the Convention)
  • CERD General Recommendation 18 (Establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute crimes against humanity)
  • CERD General Recommendation 19 (Article 3: Racial segregation and apartheid)
  • CERD General Recommendation 20 (Article 5: Non-discriminatory implementation of rights and freedoms)
  • CERD General Recommendation 21 (Right to self-determination)
  • CERD General Recommendation 22 (Article 5 and refugees and displaced persons)
  • CERD General Recommendation 23 (Indigenous peoples)
  • CERD General Recommendation 24 (Article 1: Reporting of persons belonging to different races, national/ethnic groups, or indigenous peoples)
  • CERD General Recommendation 25 (Gender related dimensions of racial discrimination)
  • CERD General Recommendation 26 (Article 6 of the Convention)
  • CERD General Recommendation 27 (Discrimination against Roma)
  • CERD General Recommendation 28 (Follow-up on the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)
  • CERD General Recommendation 29 (Art. 1, para. 1:Descent)
  • CERD General Recommendation 30 (Discrimination against non-citizens)
  • CERD General Recommendation 31 (Prevention of Racial Discrimination in the Administration and Functioning of the Criminal Justice System)
  • CERD General Recommendation 32 (The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial Discrimination)
  • CERD General Recommendation 33 (Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference)
  • CERD General Recommendation 34 (Racial Discrimination Against People of African Descent)

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    A treaty body may adopt General Comments or Recommendations, which are official statements adopted by the Committee that elaborate on the meaning of treaty obligations. Some General Comments or Recommendations may be procedural in nature, others may address substantive provisions of the treaty and provide the Committee's interpretation of treaty rights.

    CERD and CEDAW refer to these official statements as “General Recommendations” and CED, CRPD, CCPR, CESCR, CAT, CRC and CMW refer to them as “General Comments”.