WUNRN
DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE 2009
GENDER? GENDER? GENDER?
The Durban Anti-Racism review conference is scheduled to take place in
The
Durban Review Conference, to be held in
The Review Conference will serve as a catalyst to fulfilling the promises of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action agreed at the 2001 World Conference through reinvigorated actions, initiatives and practical solutions, illuminating the way toward equality for every individual and group in all regions and countries of the world.
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Direct Link: http://www.unhchr.ch/pdf/Durban.pdf
DECLARATION - WORLD CONFERENCE
AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA & RELATED INTOLERANCE
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Durban Declaration & Program of
Action - DDPA
The
DDPA is a substantial document outlining recommendations to combat racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related forms of intolerance. It is
an important framework and guideline and makes reference to a wide range of
issues such as: measures of prevention and education at the international and
national levels; prosecution; policy research and action plans; and economic
and political decision-making. [4]
The DDPA has provisions for the inter-sectionality of racism with gender, such
as: "Paragraph 62 urges States "to take all necessary measures to
address specifically, through policies and programmes, racism and racially
motivated violence against women and girls". The involvement of women in
decision-making at all levels in working toward an end to discrimination is
stressed in Paragraph 51. In the development of concrete measures, it calls for
States "to incorporate race and gender analysis in the implementation of
all aspects of the Programme of Action and national plans of action".
Paragraph 50 urges States "to incorporate a gender perspective in all programmes
of action...and to consider the burden of such discrimination which falls
particularly on Indigenous women, African women, Asian women, women of African
descent, women of Asian descent, women migrants and women from other
disadvantaged groups".
The gender dimensions of poverty must also be taken in consideration by
ensuring "gender analyses of all economic and social policies and
programmes...to benefit those individuals or groups of individuals who are
victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance" (Paragraph 52). [5]
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HISTORICAL REFERENCES ON GENDER
& RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
WUNRN welcomes current text
resources on Gender, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, Religious Intolerance,
and other discrimination and marginalization issues of women and girls.
GENDER DIMENSIONS OF RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION - By UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION,
XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED
INTOLERANCE THROUGH THE GENDER LENS
- By Devaki Jain
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