The UAE requested the ICJ to direct CERD not to accept the Qatari complaint filed on 8th March last year on the ground that Qatar simultaneously lodged a similar complaint with the ICJ as well.

DHO Dr Shaukat Ali, CERD staff and representatives of organisations working on breastfeeding attended the seminar.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt are not signatories of the CERD convention.

"It requires the Slovak government to adopt the measures necessary for eliminating all forms of discrimination against the Roma minority when providing health treatment and ensure that Roma patients, particularly women, are treated with respect," Ivanco said, as quoted by the SITA newswire.The CERD also asks for all cases of discrimination and violence reported in health care to be properly investigated.

In an August 23 press release, the UN CERD blasted the United States for its alleged "failure to unequivocally reject racist violent events" (referring to the August 11-12 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia).

The concluding observations from CERD said it was "concerned by reports that qualified Maori nurses receive significantly lower pay".

The chief executive officer of CERD, Khan Muhammad addressed the gathering and appreciated the morale and enthusiasm of the youth.

Geneva, May 2 (ONA) The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(CERD) hailed during the session in Geneva, the progress made by the Sultanate in all development fields through providing education and health services for all categories of the Omani society without discrimination, and the role of the Sultanate's government in empowering women and giving them positions in the various state sectors and the private sector.

National tripartite committee meeting on CERD today in Khartoum.

As a result of an Apache-Nde-Nnee Working Group report, submitted to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the UN CERD Committee has recognized that the Doctrine of Discovery, the Holy See's Inter Caetera and related Papal Bulls are within the legal scope of racial discrimination under International Law and therefore require redress, reads a press statement.