NINETY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OPENS IN GENEVA
(WorldNews Switzerland)

23 April 2019 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its ninety-eighth session during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Andorra, Guatemala, Hungary, Lithuania and Zambia. The Committee heard an address by Maja Andrijasevic-Boko, Chief a.i. of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and it adopted the session`s programme of work and revised agenda. In her opening statement, Ms. Andrijasevic-Boko reminded that the International Day against Racial Discrimination had been celebrated one month ago both at the Human Rights...