- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and References
- Reference Numbers to UN Documents
- 1 Extending the Rule of Law
- 2 Crimes Against Humanity
- 3 The United Nations
- 4 The Racial Convention
- 5 The Committee's Inheritance
- 6 Laying the Foundations
- 7 The Last of the Cold War
- 8 Seizing the Initiative
- 9 Dialogue With European States
- 10 Dialogue With American States
- 11 Dialogue With African States
- 12 Dialogue With Asian States
- 13 States Parties
- Appendix I International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Appendix II Selected General Recommendations
- Appendix III Elections to the Committee
- Appendix IV Legal and Educational Measures Against Racial Discrimination
- References
- Index of States
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
The Racial Convention
The Racial Convention
- Chapter:
- (p.50) 4 The Racial Convention
- Source:
- International Action against Racial Discrimination
- Author(s):
Michael Banton (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Like Plato's Republic, the ICERD is founded on a noble lie: that racial discrimination, as defined in its opening article, can be eliminated. Events leading up to the unanimous adoption of the Convention in 1965 are described. The preambular paragraphs represent racial discrimination as resembling a sickness; the operative paragraphs conceive of it as resembling a crime. Without the rhetoric promising elimination, the Convention would not have been adopted. Without the obligation upon all states parties to introduce legislation, the Convention would have had no practical effect.
Keywords: ICERD, legislation, obligations, racial discrimination, rhetoric, states
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and References
- Reference Numbers to UN Documents
- 1 Extending the Rule of Law
- 2 Crimes Against Humanity
- 3 The United Nations
- 4 The Racial Convention
- 5 The Committee's Inheritance
- 6 Laying the Foundations
- 7 The Last of the Cold War
- 8 Seizing the Initiative
- 9 Dialogue With European States
- 10 Dialogue With American States
- 11 Dialogue With African States
- 12 Dialogue With Asian States
- 13 States Parties
- Appendix I International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Appendix II Selected General Recommendations
- Appendix III Elections to the Committee
- Appendix IV Legal and Educational Measures Against Racial Discrimination
- References
- Index of States
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
