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...The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will hold its sixty-seventh session at the Palais des Nations (Room XI) in Geneva from to 19 August 2005 to review anti-discrimination efforts undertaken by the Governments of Venezuela, Georgia, Zambia, Barbados, Tanzania, Iceland, Turkmenistan and Nigeria.
These countries are among the 170 States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The 18-member Committee, the first body created by the United Nations to review actions by States to fulfil obligations under a specific human-rights agreement, examines reports submitted periodically by States parties on efforts to comply with the Convention. Government representatives generally present the report, discuss its contents with Committee members, and answer questions.
At this session, the Experts will also look at the implementation of the Convention in Malawi, Seychelles, Saint Lucia and Mozambique under its review procedure. These States parties are at least five years late...
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