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5 - Equality and non-discrimination
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References
International
human rights conventions and other legal instruments
• ICESCR: International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• CERD: Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women
• CAT: Convention Against Torture
• CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child
• ILO Convention 159: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)
• ILO Recommendation 168: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled
Persons)
• UNESCO CDE: Convention against Discrimination in Education
Article 5
Related to para. 1
ICCPR, Article 26: All persons are equal before the law and are entitled
without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law…
CERD, Article 5: In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in
article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate
racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone,
without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality
before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: (omissis)
Related to para. 2
ICESCR, Article 2(2): The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake
to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised
without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion,
political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or
other status.
ICCPR, Article 2(1): Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to
respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to
its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction
of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
CEDAW, Article 2: States Parties condemn discrimination against women in all
its forms, agree to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy
of eliminating discrimination against women and, to this end, undertake: (omissis)
CRC, Article 2(1): States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth
in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination
of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national,
ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.
CMW, Article 7: States Parties undertake, in accordance with the international
instruments concerning human rights, to respect and to ensure to all migrant
workers and members of their families within their territory or subject to
their jurisdiction the rights provided for in the present Convention without
distinction of any kind such as to sex, race, colour, language, religion or
conviction, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin,
nationality, age, economic position, property, marital status, birth or other
status.
Related to para. 4
CERD, Article 1(4): Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing
adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring
such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals
equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms shall
not be deemed racial discrimination, provided, however, that such measures
do not, as a consequence, lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different
racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for
which they were taken have been achieved.
CERD, Article 2(2): States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant,
take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete
measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial
groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them
the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. These
measures shall in no case en tail as a con sequence the maintenance of unequal
or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which
they were taken have been achieved.
CEDAW, Article 4(1): Adoption by States Parties of temporary special measures
aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women shall not be
considered discrimination as defined in the present Convention, but shall in
no way entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate standards;
these measures shall be discontinued when the objectives of equality of opportunity
and treatment have been achieved.