Africa/Global: Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens Sixty-fourth Session

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened its sixty-fourth session by electing its Chairperson, 3 Vice-Chairpersons and a Rapportuer. In the course of its 3 week session, ending on 12 March, the Committee will review anti-discrimination efforts undertaken by the Governments of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Suriname, Spain, Sweden, the Bahamas, Lebanon, Nepal, Brazil and the Netherlands. It will also look into the state of affairs in Guyana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Madagascar and Venezuela under its review procedure for States parties whose reports are seriously overdue. These countries are among the 169 States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.