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This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. Årsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, Årsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.

Freedom of religion (International law) --- Religious minorities --- Religious discrimination --- Religion and international relations --- Religion and law --- Law --- Law and religion --- Religious liberty (International law) --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Law and legislation --- Religious aspects --- United Nations. --- CRC --- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child --- Committee on the Rights of the Child (United Nations) --- Comité des droits de l'enfant --- Comité sobre los Derechos del Niño de Naciones Unidas --- Comité Internacional de los Derechos del Niño del Sistema de Naciones Unidas --- CEDAW --- CEDAW Committee --- Komite PBB Untuk Penghapusan Diskriminasi Terhadap Perempuan --- Sīdāw --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Organization) --- Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra a Mulher --- Sīḍō --- Yŏsŏng Ch'abyŏl Ch'ŏlp'ye Wiwŏnhoe --- CERD --- CERD Committee --- Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial de Naciones Unidas-CERD --- United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination --- UN-Menschenrechtsausschuss --- MRK (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights --- HRC (Organization) --- Human Rights Committee (United Nations) --- International relations --- International relations and religion --- Religion and international affairs --- Freedom of religion --- Minorities --- International law --- 342.72/.73 --- 342.72/.73 Mensenrechten. Amnesty International. Euthanasie --- Mensenrechten. Amnesty International. Euthanasie --- Religion and international relations. --- Religion and law. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women --- Religious issues & debates --- Sociology --- Law. --- human rights. --- religion.

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This is the very first edited collection on International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the oldest of the UN international human rights treaties. It draws together a range of commentators including current or former members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), along with academic and other experts, to discuss the meaning and relevance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary. The contributions examine the shift from a narrow understanding of racial discrimination in the 1960s, premised on countering colonialism and apartheid, to a wider meaning today drawing in a range of groups such as minorities, indigenous peoples, caste groups, and Afro-descendants. In its unique combination of CERD and expert analysis, the collection acts as an essential guide to the international understanding of racial discrimination and the pathway towards its elimination.

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- Jinshu sabetsu teppai jōyaku --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, International --- Internationales Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung --- Konvensi Internasional Tentang Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Rasial --- Convención Internacional sobre la Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación Racial --- UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- اتفاقية الدولية للقضاء على جميع اشكال التمييز العنصري --- Ittifāqīyat al-Dawlīyah lil-Qaḍāʼ ʻalá Jamīʻ Ashkāl al-Tamyīz al-ʻUnṣurī --- Anti-racism --- Minorities --- Race discrimination --- Racism --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Prevention --- CERD. --- Gypsyism. --- ICERD. --- Romani sentiment. --- UNDRIP. --- dignity. --- equality. --- global dialogue. --- indigenous peoples. --- international human rights law. --- international law. --- international order. --- mutual respect. --- racist hate speech.