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CERD Concluding Observations Online

18 March 2005 - The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has issued its concluding observations on Australia. This follows consideration of Australia's 13th and 14th periodic reports in Geneva on 1 and 2 March 2005.

The Committee commended a number of positive developments in relation to Australia's compliance with the racial discrimination convention as well as expressed a number of concerns relating to Indigenous issues, migrants and asylum seekers and racial discrimination laws in Australia.

Please note: the Committee has released their concluding observations in an advanced unedited version.

To access the concluding observations visit: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/cerd/report.html

For an information note on the CERD process visit: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/cerd/InformationNoteCERD.html.

Submissions made to the Committee by HREOC and by Australian non-government organisations are also available from these weblinks.

Source: HREOC

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