Research Catalog

Title

International action against racial discrimination / Michael Banton.

Author

Banton, Michael, 1926-2018

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

xvi, 362 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This is the first book to provide an inside account of how a United Nations human rights treaty body actually works. At the same time it is an introduction to the international law of racial discrimination. The book focuses on the practical operation and implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, emphasising throughout the relationship between the law and politics. The book takes account of current issues in international race relations - from the process of dismantling apartheid in South Africa, to recent horrors and genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Michael Banton's latest work will be crucial reading for anyone interested in eliminating racial discrimination on an international level.

Subject

• United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Conference on Disarmament
• Race discrimination
• Race discrimination > Law and legislation
• Human rights
• Human Rights

Genre/Form

• text.
• bibliography.
• comment.
• texte.
• bibliographie.
• commentaire.
• texto.
• bibliografía.
• comentario.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-350) and indexes.

Contents

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 -- App. I. Text of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination -- App. II. Selected General Recommendations -- App. III. Elections to the Committee -- App. IV. Legal and Educational Measures Against Racial Discrimination.

ISBN

0198280610

LCCN

^^^95047057^

OCLC

• 33665186
• SCSB-10435199

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library