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Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
27 November 1978
Convention against Discrimination in Education
Recommendation against Discrimination in Education
14 December 1960
UDHR Article 2:
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour,
sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on
the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the
country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be
independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
UNDEID
Article 2 1. No one shall be
subject to discrimination by any State, institution, group of persons, or
person on the grounds of religion or other belief. 2. For the purposes of the
present Declaration, the expression "intolerance and discrimination based
on religion or belief" means any distinction, exclusion, restriction or
preference based on religion or belief and having as its purpose or as its
effect nullification or impairment of the recognition, enjoyment or exercise of
human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis. Article 3
Discrimination between human being on the grounds of religion or belief
constitutes an affront to human dignity and a disavowal of the principles of
the Charter of the United Nations, and shall be condemned as a violation of the
human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and enunciated in detail in the International Covenants on
Human Rights, and as an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations between
nations.
UDHG Article 6: No one shall
be subjected to discrimination based on genetic characteristics that is
intended to infringe or has the effect of
infringing human rights, fundamental freedoms and human
dignity.
VDPA 15. Respect for human rights and for fundamental
freedoms without distinction of any kind is a fundamental rule of international
human rights law. The speedy and comprehensive elimination of all forms of
racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance is a
priority task for the international community. Governments should take
effective measures to prevent and combat them. Groups, institutions,
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals are urged
to intensify their efforts in cooperating and coordinating their activities
against these evils.
DRPG article 11: The present
generation should refrain from taking any action or measure which would have
the effect of leading to or perpetuating any form of discrimination for future
generations.
/Racial
discrimination
UNCERD Article I
UNDERD Article 1
Discrimination between human beings on the ground of race, colour
or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned as a
denial of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, as a violation
of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, as an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations among
nations and as a fact capable of disturbing peace and security among peoples.
PT 8. The peoples of the world must be made fully
aware of the evils of racial discrimination and must join in combating them.
The implementation of this principle of non-discrimination, embodied in the
Charter of the United
Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other international instruments in
the field of human rights, constitutes a most urgent task of mankind at the
international as well as at the national level. All ideologies based on racial
superiority and intolerance must be condemned and resisted.
/Discrimination in
education
UnescoCDE Article 1: 1. For the purpose of this Convention, the term
"discrimination" includes any distinction, exclusion, limitation or
preference which, being based on race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
economic condition or birth, has the purpose or effect of nullifying or
impairing equality of treatment in education and in particular: (a) Of
depriving any person or group of persons of access to education of any type or
at any level; (b) Of limiting any person or group of persons to education of an
inferior standard ... 2. For the purposes of this Convention, the term
"education" refers to all types and levels of education, and includes
access to education, the standard and quality of education, and the conditions
under which it is given.
/Racial and
religious equality
DHDR Article 28 The Duty and
Responsibility to Ensure Racial and Religious equality In accordance with their
duty and responsibility to ensure substantive racial and religious equality
States should: (a) ensure the effective enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms without discrimination on the basis of race, religion or
ethnicity; (b) take positive measures to: (i) condemn
all forms of racial and religious discrimination and respect racial, ethnic and
religious diversity; (ii) promote the adequate representation of racial, ethnic
and religious groups suffering the effects of past and present discrimination
at all levels of public and political life... (vi)
declare illegal and prohibit organisations and
activities designed to promote racial, ethnic or religious violence or hatred.
UnescoRRP Article 1.2. All individuals and groups have the right to
be different, to consider themselves as different and to be regarded as such.
However, the diversity of life styles and the right to be different may not, in
any circumstances, serve as a pretext for racial prejudice; they may not
justify either in law or in fact any discriminatory practice whatsoever, nor
provide a ground for the policy of apartheid, which is the extreme form of
racism. 3. Identity of origin in no way affects the fact that human beings can
and may live differently, nor does it preclude the existence of differences
based on cultural, environmental and historical
diversity nor the right to maintain cultural identity. 4. All peoples of the
world possess equal faculties for attaining the highest level in intellectual,
technical, social, economic, cultural and political development... Article 2 1. Any theory which involves the claim that racial
or ethnic groups are inherently superior or inferior, thus implying that some
would be entitled to dominate or eliminate others, presumed to be inferior, or
which bases value judgements on racial
differentiation, has no scientific foundation and is contrary to the moral and
ethical principles of humanity... 2 it is contrary to the fundamental
principles of international law and, consequently, seriously disturbs
international peace and security. 3. Racial prejudice, historically linked with
inequalities in power, reinforced by economic and social differences between
individuals and groups, and still seeking today to justify such inequalities,
is totally without justification.
/Inequality
(condemnation)
UNSP Article 2 Social
progress and development shall be founded on respect for the dignity and value
of the human person and shall ensure the promotion of human rights and social
justice, which requires: (a) The immediate and final elimination of all forms
of inequality, exploitation of peoples and individuals, colonialism and racism,
including nazism and apartheid, and all other
policies and ideologies opposed to the purposes and principles of the United
Nations; (b) The recognition and effective implementation of civil and
political rights as well as of economic, social and cultural rights without any
discrimination.