CERD

( File photo: UN CERD in session) Consideration of Sri Lanka’s periodic reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( CERD) was held on 15 and 16th August 2016 in Geneva. The CERD has now published its concluding observations on Sri Lanka. the introduction of the report and full report as […]

(Anastasia Crickley, Vice President CERD) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Concluding observations on the tenth to seventeenth periodic reports of Sri Lanka* 1. The Committee considered the combined tenth to seventeenth periodic reports of Sri Lanka (CERD/C/LKA/10-17), submitted in one document, at its 2468th and 2469th meetings (CERD/C/SR. 2468, CERD/C/SR. 2469), held on […]

( CERD Sri Lanka session in progress) The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 16 August concluded the examination of the combined tenth to seventeenth periodic report of Sri Lanka on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Ravinatha […]

( Anti Muslim hate speech still exists in Sri Lanka) Introduction. 1. Notes that Sri Lanka acceded to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 1982, and it submitted the last periodic reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2000. Regrets with concern the […]

(Discrimination against ethnic and ethno-religious minorities is one of the major themes of CERD) List of themes in relation to the combined tenth to seventeenth periodic reports of Sri Lanka. Consideration of reports, comments and information submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention List of themes in relation to the combined tenth […]