Civics

Articles 28 and 30 recognize everyone’s entitlement to a social and international order in which the human rights as proclaimed by the Declaration may be fully realized.

Right to Protection: This right includes the right to recognition as a person before the law, the right to a judicial remedy, freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile,

Social Discrimination has been defined by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) as ‘any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin,

Economic Rights: (i) The right to social security.(ii) The right to work.(iii) The right to equal pay for equal work…

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was adopted by the General Assembly in 1963 to combat racism and Apartheid in the world with special emphasis in South Africa.

Conventions adopted by the General Assembly: United Nations has done a great deal to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms.

QUESTION: When was the ‘International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination’ adopted and to what purpose? Or In 1963, the General Assembly adopted the ‘UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. What did it affirm?

The UN passed several resolutions banning Racial Discrimination. In 1974 the Assembly established an 18 member committee known as the “Special Committee against Apartheid”.

The new President of South Africa, President F.W. De Clerk in 1989, realized that the policy of Apartheid had failed, and began a process of bringing down Apartheid.

The massacre at Sharpville took place on 21st March 1960 when South African police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators protesting against the requirement