Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 16, 2020
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In the 1960s, the African-American activist Malcolm X launched a lobbying campaign to “internationalize” the civil rights movement in the United States by calling on the United Nations to focus on the lives of black Americans through a human-rights…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 13, 2012
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In blocking adoption by the United States of a global convention to protect the disabled, the Republican right signaled on Dec. 4 that it intends to stall or kill all international treaties sent to the Senate for ratification by…
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