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ICERD: Overview and Adoption Details

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a human rights treaty adopted in 1965 that aims to eliminate racial discrimination. It entered into force in 1969 and now has 179 state parties. The ICERD was created in response to incidents of anti-Semitism in the 1960s to establish an international convention on eliminating racial discrimination.

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ICERD: Overview and Adoption Details

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a human rights treaty adopted in 1965 that aims to eliminate racial discrimination. It entered into force in 1969 and now has 179 state parties. The ICERD was created in response to incidents of anti-Semitism in the 1960s to establish an international convention on eliminating racial discrimination.

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International Convention for

the Elimination of all Forms of


Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
International Convention
on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial
Discrimination

Adoption by the UNGA: 21


December 1965
Entry Into Force: 4 January
1969
(30 days after the 27th ratification,
as provided for in Article 19)
State Parties: 179
Signatories: 88
Background
• Third-Generation human rights instrument
• Created as a response to incidents of Anti-Semitism in the 1960s
• UN GA Resolution 1780 (XVII), adopted on 7 December 1962
• Draft Declaration and Draft Convention to be created by the Commission on
Human Rights
• One of the most widely ratified Conventions
• Ratified by more than 156 countries; 4/5 of the UN membership
• Signed on behalf of the Philippines by Salvador P. Lopez, Philippine
Ambassador to the UN

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