COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS THE REPORT OF ALGERIA
(WorldNews Switzerland)

23 November 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth and twenty-first periodic reports of Algeria on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the report, Lazhar Soualem, Director of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, said that Algeria had established the National Council for Human Rights in March 2017, amended the Penal Code in 2014 to align the definition of discrimination with the Convention, set up a new national body to follow up on the issue of trafficking in human beings, and had...