International Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
Schedule
(e)
circumstances, racial discrimination by any persons, group or
organization;
Each State Party undertakes to encourage, where appropriate,
integrationist multi-racial organizations and movements and other
means of eliminating barriers between races, and to discourage
anything which tends to strengthen racial division.
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 entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate
rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken
have been achieved.
Article 3
States Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and
undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in
territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 4
States Parties condemn all propaganda and all organizations which are
based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one
colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and
discrimination in any form, and undertake to adopt immediate and positive
measures designed to eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination
and, to this end, with due regard to the principles embodied in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the rights expressly set forth in article 5 of
this Convention, inter alia:
(a) Shall declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of
ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial
discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such
acts against any race or group of persons of another colour or
ethnic origin, and also the provision of any assistance to racist
activities, including the financing thereof;
(b) Shall declare illegal and prohibit organizations, and also organized
and all other propaganda activities, which promote and incite racial
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