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DECLARATION - WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA & RELATED INTOLERANCE

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Full Document of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education is Attached.

ADVANCE

EDITED VERSION

A/CONF.211/PC.2/8

17 April 2008

Original: ENGLISH

DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE

Preparatory Committee

First substantive session

Geneva, 21 April - 2 May 2007

Item 6 of the provisional agenda

REVIEW OF REPORTS, STUDIES AND OTHER DOCUMENTATION FOR THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE AND THE DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES AND MECHANISMS

Contributions submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education to the questionnaire prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, pursuant to decision PC.1/10 of the Preparatory Committee of the Durban Review

Conference at its first session

Full Document is Attached.

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The Durban Declaration gives special emphasis to: Africans and Afro-descendants; indigenous populations; migrants; and refugees. It also mentions poverty as a key element of discrimination and gender as a deep-rooted cross-cutting issue that severely aggravates all forms of discrimination. AIDS is also mentioned as a factor of discrimination.....

Education in and for human rights is a condition for the adequate development of the personality and for the integral protection of human dignity; it must be considered as a key parameter when attempts to define the significance of quality education take place. Such education, based on the recognition and valuing of difference, must be oriented towards equity and a more just and peaceful society.

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