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| | Carol Cooper: World Conference Against Racism 2001 |
 | | While the conference's documents are not legally binding, once adopted all countries promise to fulfill the applicable pledges made. | | | Under the slavery deal, the conference acknowledged that slavery is a crime against humanity and "should always have been so." It also expressed an apology in the form of acknowledgment for the wrongs of slavery and colonialism and offer a package of economic assistance to Africa. | | | But the EU had resisted calling the slave trade a "crime against humanity," though it was willing to condemn modern-day slavery as such a crime. |
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http://www.carolcooper.org/racism.php
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| | WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM |
| | It is time to recognize the limits of legal remedies to reduce, prevent, control or eradicate extreme inequality, discrimination and racism, taking the next step to insure the social and economic foundations of equality at the family, school, community, city, state and global levels. | | | The United States has done more to both document and pass laws against racism than any other country. | | | But I am compelled to condemn the arrogance, unilateralism, and racist attitude of the government of the United States. |
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http://www.vppps.org/wcar.htm
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| | MRG - World Conference Against Racism |
| | The World Conference should urge all states parties to ICERD to give effect to the Convention within their domestic legislation and to ensure its full and effective application. | | | The development of these programmes must be accompanied by a pledge on behalf of individual states and regional inter-governmental organizations to commit adequate resources and establish a monitoring process. |
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| | HRW: World Conference Against Racism Backgrounder |
| | The World Conference should recommend measures to identify and to remedy the racist effect of law or practice in the administration of justice, even in the absence of racist intent. | | | But drafts of the World Conference program of action have called for measures to address discrimination in the administration of justice only where discriminatory intent can be discerned. | | | The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), to which 157 states are party, obliges states to nullify any law or practice which has the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination. |
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http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/race/background0727.htm
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| | WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, |
| | 28. We recall that persecution against any identifiable group, collectivity or community on racial, national, ethnic or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, as well as the crime of apartheid constitute serious violations of human rights and, in some cases, qualify as crimes against humanity; | | | Calls upon States to provide effective access to administrative and legal procedures and other remedial action to victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance at the work place. | | | Urges States to take all possible measures to ensure that all persons, without any discrimination, are registered and have access to the necessary documentation reflecting their legal identity to enable them to benefit from available legal procedures, remedies and development opportunities, as well as to reduce the incidence of trafficking; |
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http://www.icare.to/wcardeclarationandpoa-unedited.html
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| | Kit-World Conference against Racism |
| | Examples are requirements for identity and official documents and the narrow definition of family. | | | It maintains power by silencing opposition by laws, polices and practices, by control over activities through financial funding criteria, by media attention or who is allowed to voice opinion. | | | Ensure also an independent and impartial complaint mechanism can provide redress (compensation) for torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. |
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http://www.web.net/~iccr/edu/Kit-WldCnfRac-Mod-1.htm
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| | Panapress Official Website |
| | Mauritius to push for descendants of slaves' compensation | | | Millions still enslaved as world marks abolition of slavery | | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Niamey appeal court has ordered the temporary release of two activists of the Niger Association for Struggle against Slavery Practices (Timidria) after they spent four days in detention, a defence lawyer confirmed here. |
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http://www.panapress.com/dossindexlat.asp?code=eng005
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| | The World Conference Against Racism |
| | The Third Preparatory Conference, which was to resolve such controversial issues before the WCAR, concluded its deliberations last Friday, having failed to expurgate the anti-Israel and anti-Zionist wording from draft Governmental documents to be submitted to the WCAR. | | | Unfortunately the difficulties were not resolved in Geneva, and the original wording of the governmental documents will be carried over to the WCAR in Durban. | | | The political Arab-Israeli conflict must not be confused with the issue of racism. |
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| | World Conference Against Racism - IRP Minnesota |
| | Finally, the third premise suggests that liability for the impact of racism may be established. | | | The second premise suggests that a basis for valuing and quantifying claims of reparations may be determined, and thus, the impact of racism can be made compensable through investments directed at abating past deprivations of the human right to development. | | | That the critical issues group of Data Collection, Disaggregation, Research and Study, is addressed in some form in the outcome of WCAR, whether providing for uniform measures or individual country measures of the race and poverty intersect, however, financial and technical support are not secured to address the statistical capacity building issues in signatory countries. |
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| | ZNet Commentary |
| | If you are a lowly NGO worker, you will most likely have to make do with the spartan Holiday Inn Garden Court. | | | Yasmine Sooka, a Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has argued that families of freedom fighters killed or injured during the struggle should receive compensation from the banks for prolonging apartheid. | | | A demand from the president that foreign banks pay back profits made over a decade ago would hardly have helped his cause. |
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| | World Conference against Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, other critics have claimed that the United States policy also related to demands for reparations for slavery in the New World. | | | It was for this reason that both the United States and Israel pulled their delegations from the WCAR. | | | Both Australia and Canada made statements accusing the conference of "hypocrisy". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Conference_Against_Racism
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| | Racism - Global Issues |
| | Some took Darwin’s theories to imply that since some “races” were more civilized, there must be a biological basis for the difference. | | | It is also a detailed issue, and the following links may provide more details: | | | The fact that the Stephen Lawrence case, which, in UK is one of the perhaps most infamous on-going cases of racism in the police force and has received much attention at the time of this bombing could be more than coincidence. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Racism.asp
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| | World Conference against Racism |
| | Against this backdrop, it was primarily the EU partners who made sterling efforts to ensure the Conference was still able to agree on viable compromises, even on these difficult and controversial matters, but which also did justice to Europe's particular responsibility for the fight against anti-Semitism and its ties with Israel. | | | For example the Federal Government made available some US$ 320,000 for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who was also the Secretary-General of the World Conference. | | | As was also the case in the run-up to the Conference, it will involve civil society in Germany in the implementation process through the Forum against Racism. |
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http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/aussenpolitik/menschenrechte/mr_inhalte_ziele/rassismus_html
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| | Crisis Management Initiative |
| | Within one single preparation process of a world conference, it is almost impossible to define a common approach to historical issues such as slavery, colonialism and their impact. | | | While many of these issues truly deserve to be discussed, some are so complicated that they may need their own forum and a more long-term perspective. | | | for the United Nation Secretary General to establish a North-South Forum (NSF) to carry this task as an element of the follow up of the WCAR. |
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| | World Conference Against Racism |
| | That is why the United States needs to send a high-level delegation and make an effort to participate in the dialogue with open minds. | | | This is the third world conference against racism but the first one to which the United States has been invited. | | | Though the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa created laws to eradicate formalized racism, serious work still needs to be done to combat the problem. |
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| | Choike - World Conference Against Racism - WCAR |
| | The declaration includes conclusions on each issue on the agenda, the identification of slavery and the slave trade as a "crime against humanity", and theestablishment of a programme of action adhered to by the participants. | | | This statement was made at the 45th Session of the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women, held in New York, March 6-16, 2001. | | | Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights. |
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| | YDS > Statements > UN World Conference Against Racism |
| | In December, 1965, in response to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the civil rights movement in the United States, the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a legally binding document which has been ratified by 155 countries – the US not included. | | | Recognizing that the struggle against racism cannot end at conventions and law, the United Nations since convened two world conferences on combating white supremacy and sadly, the United States has not participated in either conference. | | | Campaign against the building and financing of private prisons. |
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| | Staff |
| | During that campaign, hearings were held in seven cities and more than 200 people testified on a variety of human rights violations occurring in the United States. | | | She was responsible for organizing a major joint World Council of Churches/National Council of Churches initiative in the United States on Racism as a Violation of Human Rights. | | | While there, she worked with churches, ecumenical organizations and movement groups on issues of racism and minority group rights from around the world. |
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| | ACTION ALERTS: ENERGY LEGISLATION IN HOUSE FLAWED IN FUNDAMENTAL WAYS - July 26, 2001 |
| | Bracketing of references to the problem of anti-Semitism and actions to curb it, signaling lack of agreement on whether to include this language in the final conference document; | | | There are too many issues that need to be discussed in a positive setting. Outdated canards and unfair attacks should not be part of any conference in which the United States participates. | | | Generally documents produced by UN conferences deal in a generic way with practices, policies, programs, avoiding country-specific messages that would politicize the conference and undermine its humanitarian mission. Yet, Israel alone is singled out in WCAR documents. |
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http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/action/recent/un-conference-on-racism.htm
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| | Consideration of Reports Submitted by State Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant, Initial report of State parties due in 1993. | | | Italy during the final years of World War II : 1943-1945 | | | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 12, Violence against women, (Eighth session, 1989). |
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| | World Conference Against Racism |
| | Durban Declaration and Programme of Action finally available | | | All news reports about the preparation and events during the WCAR are archived. | | | Mary Robinson briefs UN Sub-Commission on follow-up of WCAR |
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| | The EU's Human rights and Democratisation Policy - The World Conference Against Racism |
| | that present the European Union position on the conference. | | | This document summarises the measures, which have already been taken in the European Union to combat racism, and demonstrates what can be achieved by a group of states acting together at a regional level. | | | The World Conference aimed to focus on action-oriented and practical steps to eradicate racism, including measures of prevention, education and protection and the provision of effective remedies. |
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| | Hanan Ashrawi's address at UN conference, Durban |
| | I ask you also not to succumb, but to maintain and enhance the struggle for dignity, equality, freedom, and justice as an act of collective affirmation on behalf of humanity as a whole. | | | Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. | | | Never before have the victims been denied the right to articulate, and gain recognition for, the horrendous atrocities being committed against them as a matter of policy, but were rather blamed and punished for the fact of their victimization. |
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| | THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM |
| | The Bahá'ís of the UK congratulate the United Nations Organisation for facilitating this important conference and wish success for all those who participate in it. | | | The United Nations will hold the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa from 31st August to 7th September this year. | | | 'The world is but one country, and mankind its citizens,' Bahá'u'lláh says, 'Regard ye not one another as strangers. |
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| | World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerence |
| | This Website was created for NGOs to facilitate participatation in the preparations for the conference by contributing documents, papers and other material they wished to share. | | | The United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) was held in Durban, South Africa. | | | The governmental meeting was held from August 31 to September 7, 2001. |
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| | Durban Update: Final Declaration Recognizes Palestinian Right of Return; Omits Language Critical of Israel |
| | Voting against this motion were Arab and Muslim states and others that sought to include anti-Israel language, and the South African delegate. | | | Brazil offered a "motion of no action" requesting that, having reached a compromise on the Middle East, delegates move forward to accept the declaration and leave aside paragraphs on which they were unable to agree. | | | The motion was approved by a vote of 51-38. |
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| | OHCHR -> World Conference against Racism: Durban, South Africa (2001): WCAR:Racism: Racisme: Racismo: UNHCHR: Racism ... |
| | The Second Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group will take place from 26 January to 6 February 2004 at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Conference Room XXI at the Palais des Nations. | | | States, United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, intergovernmental and regional organizations, and national human rights institutions are invited to participate in the regional seminar as observers. | | | The third session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Palais des Nations, from 29 September to 10 October 2003, in Conference Room XXI (for the report of the Working Group on its first and second sessions see E/CN.4/2003/21) |
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| | World Conference Against Racism - tours to Elephant Coast |
| | To read statements from NGOs and Governments, or background articles on the issues, go to The Issues. | | | This website has been created for NGOs planning on participating in the upcoming United Nations World Conference Against Racism. | | | We will specifically tailor your itinerary to end before, or begin after, the world conference again racism. |
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http://www.elephantcoast.net/world_conference_against_racism_tours.html
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| | WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM |
| | 100,000 people marched on September 1st in Durban against racism and to demand reparations for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. | | | It includes Njeri Shakur, from the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, Orenthal Ross from the MOVE Organization, and a statement from Mumia Abu-Jamal from Death Row. | | | The following are excerpts from a panel on the Death Penalty held at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR). |
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| | World Conference Against Racism |
| | External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein. | | | The United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) took place August 31 - September 7, 2001, in South Africa. | | | Although the U.S. had anticipated participating fully in the conference, on September 3, Secretary Powell instructed U.S. representatives to return home: "I have taken this decision with regret.... |
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| | Welcome to the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists - Ontario Chapter |
| | The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) was formed at the culmination of the Afrikans and Afrikan Descents World Conference Against Racism, a follow-up to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, 2002. | | | The Society was founded in 1978 as a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion and study of Black history and heritage. |
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| | OHCHR-> World Conference against Racism: Durban, South Africa (2001) |
| | It is underscored that at the meetings of the inter-sessional working group and other preparatory processes for the Conference, the African Group and other delegations will continue to discuss and support the inclusion of the word ‘compensatory’ as part of theme No. 4. | | | to draw up concrete recommendations for ensuring that the United Nations has the financial and other necessary resources for its actions to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. | | | Strategies to achieve full and effective equality, including international cooperation and enhancement of the United Nations and other international mechanisms in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and follow-up. |
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| | World's Tallest Buildings |
| | UC = under construction, number indicates year of expected completion. | | | Architectural group awards Taipei 101 skyscraper world's tallest building title (AP Worldstream) | | | This data was gathered and/or supplied by members and representatives of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat who represent world leaders in the field of the built environment, including research, industry, and education. |
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| | Home Page of the World Conference against Racism |
| | This site is best viewed using 800 x 600 resolution with Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.5 or higher. | | | Home Page of the World Conference against Racism |
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| | Nuclear Information and Resource Service and World Information Service on Energy (NIRS/WISE) | | | Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques | | | Johannesburg 2002: The World Summit on Sustainable Development |
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