UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cuba, Japan, Latvia, Mauritius, and Montenegro

GENEVA (August 7, 2018) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is meeting in Geneva from 6 to 30 August to review Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cuba, Japan, Latvia, Mauritius, and Montenegro.

The above are among the 179 States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and so are required to undergo regular reviews on how they are implementing the Convention and the Committee’s previous recommendations.   

The public sessions are taking place in the ground floor conference room of Palais Wilson in Geneva on the following schedule:

Tuesday, August 7:
15:00-18:00 Montenegro

Wednesday, August 8:
10:00-13:00 Montenegro
15:00-18:00 Latvia

Thursday, August 9:
10:00-13:00 Latvia
15:00-13:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Thursday, August 9:
10:00-13:00 Latvia
15:00-13:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Friday, August 10 :
10:00-13:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina
15:00-18:00 China

Monday, August 13:
10:00-13:00 China

Tuesday, August 14:
15:00-18:00 Mauritius

Wednesday, August 15:
10:00-13:00 Mauritius
15:00-18:00 Cuba

Thursday, August 16:
10:00-13:00 Cuba
15:00-18:00 Japan

Friday, August 17:
10:00-13:00 Japan

The Committee is scheduled to publish its findings on the respective States on August 30, and will also hold a press conference (to be confirmed).  

The recommended hashtag for the meeting is #CERD96 and the sessions will be webcast live at http://webtv.un.org/live.

Further information about the session is available here. For media accreditation, please see here.

For more information and media requests please contact Julia Gronnevet +41 (0) 22 917 9310/jgronnevet@ohchr.org 

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Background

The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discriminationmonitors States parties’ adherence to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee is made up of 18 members who are independent human rights experts drawn from around the world, who serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of States parties. The Committee’s concluding observations are an independent assessment of States’ compliance with their human rights obligations under the treaty.

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