At the Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban in 2001, governments committed themselves to take a number of practical measures against racism. A general review of these commitments is to take place at a United Nations Conference in Geneva in late April 2009. Known as the Durban Review, the planned conference has been the focus of fierce controversy. To contribute towards a better understanding of the situation, the paper will discuss some of the background and history behind the dispute.
Author: Heiner Bielefeldt
Policy Paper
ISSN: 1614-2195
10 p.
(PDF, 103 KB, not barrier-free)
March 2009
In 2004 the institute placed great emphasis on a number of themes: By incessantly speaking out in favour of signing and ratifying the additional protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture, the institute lends its support to the prevention of torture and the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of people. At the same time, it also bolsters an international mechanism of prevention that can only produce tangible results once a sufficient number of signatories have ratified it. The institute's statements on the question of headscarves worn by Muslim women served to make the domestic debate more objective by adding a human rights perspective. The second half of the year was largely dominated by events organized in connection with the Concluding Observations on Germany of four United Nations treaty bodies on human rights, as well as by events in connection with the Third Report on Germany of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.
Editor: German Institute for Human Rights
Annual Report
43 p.
(PDF, 789 KB, not barrier-free)
August 2005
In 2002, the German Institute for Human Rights, founded in March 2001, undertook some major steps in the direction of a functioning human rights institution, a valuable research institute and a service point for information on human rights in Germany in 2002. This report provides an overview of the important developments.
23 p.
(PDF, 188 KB, not barrier-free)
August 2003
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