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Racism: economic roots of discrimination (2001)
Introduction
Prepared in the context of the 2001 United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, this report discusses the particular challenge of entrenched discrimination linked to poverty. It argues that co-ordinated action across a range of policy areas is required to end entrenched economic and racial exclusion, and identifies some of the policies that need to be combined to make long-term change possible.
Research team
Biographical affiliation was accurate when research took place.
Research director
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Research Director, ICHRP, 1998-2004. For more information on this project, please contact Fairouz El Tom, Research and Publications Officer, ICHRP.
The report was also prepared by Robert Archer, Executive Director, ICHRP.
Lead researcher
Stephanie Farrior, served as Rapporteur for the meeting. She prepared a synthesis note on which this report builds. At the time of the project she was Professor of International Law, Pennsylvania State University. She is former Director of the Legal and International Organizations Program, Amnesty International. Stephanie Farrior has served on the board of directors of the Center for Justice and Accountability and of a state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has also served as legal expert on human rights missions to Yemen, India, Malawi, and Pakistan and worked at the Mexican-American Legal Defence and Educational Fund. Stephanie Farrior holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. degree from the American University. She is the author of numerous articles on international human rights law in such journals as the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Berkeley Journal of International Law.
Additional writing and editing was done by Morris Lipson, consultant.
Researchers
Diego Iturralde, Applied Research Division Co-ordinator, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, Costa Rica.
Marian Catherine Jacko, sociologist, lawyer, Office of the Children’s Lawyer, Government of Ontario, Ministry of the Attorney General, Canada.
Martinbhai Macwan, Director, Navsarjan Trust; Convenor of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights, India.
Benon Mugarura, President, African Indigenous and Minority Peoples Organisation (AIMPO), Rwanda; UN Indigenous Fellow 2000.
Smita Narula, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch.
Anicet Ndemeye, Vice President, African Indigenous and Minority Peoples Organisation (AIMPO), Rwanda.
John A. Powell (sic), Director, Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota.
Edna Roland, Co-ordinator, Fala Preta, Brazil.
Advisors
Glenn C. Loury, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University.
Glenn C. Loury, Director, Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University.
Christopher D. Sidoti, Commissioner, Human Rights Commission, Australia.
Theo van Boven, Professor, University of Maastricht; member, Committee on Ethnic and Racial Discrimination (CERD).
Documents
Links
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
International Network: Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
The Institute on Race and Social Division - Boston University
UNITED for Intercultural Action
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
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