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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is a United Nationsconvention adopted and opened for signature and ratification by United Nations General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) December 21, 1965, and which entered into force January 4, 1969. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... Generally, convention means coming together. ... United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
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Text of the resolution (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm) on the sit of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Links to information on status of ratifications, declarations and reservations, and the monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/cerd.htm)
There was no country that was free of racialdiscrimination, and the delegation did not claim that all provisions of the International Convention had been implemented, but since the Islamic Revolution, serious measures had been taken and continued to be taken to eliminatediscrimination against disadvantaged groups.
With regard to the elimination of racialdiscrimination, tremendous efforts had been made, and legal steps had been taken to promote this issue, by the approval of some Bills and motions providing equal opportunities for both Islamic groups and other religious groups in the context of the Punishment Act.
Discrimination was not supported in any law, and there was a need to fight against all forms of this.
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