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 Covenant 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 genocides 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. About Michael Banton: Michael Banton is Chairman of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 1996-98.
| ISBN: | 9780198280613 |
| Publication date: | 23rd May 1996 |
| Author: | Michael (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol) Banton |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 378 pages |
| Genres: |
Social discrimination and equal treatment Ethnic studies Public international law: human rights Public international law: humanitarian law Human rights, civil rights International institutions |