This is the text of the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance, adopted on 6 June 2013. It seeks to eliminate racism, racial discrimination and related forms of intolerance. Other grounds of discrimination are covered by the Inter-American Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance.
This is the text of the Inter-American Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, adopted on 6 June 2013. It addresses discrimination and intolerance on all grounds excluding race, which is protected under the Inter-American Convention Against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance.
In this observation the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) welcomes the report and goes on to identifies several subjects of concern, a number of which related to the principle of non-discrimination.
London, 9 April 2008
On Thursday 3 April 2008, Ecuador became the twentieth country to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This ratification means that the Convention along with its Optional Protocol, permitting individual communications to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, will enter into force on 3 May 2008.
The Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 December 2006 and has, to date, 126 signatories. As explained by the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
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