Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS

South Africa is a State Party to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Convention makes provision for the establishment of an 18-member Committee, which monitors the implementation of the Convention and examines obligatory treaty reports lodged by States Parties. The members of the Committee are experts nominated by States Parties, but serve in their personal capacity for a term of four years. South Africa is represented by Ambassador Patricia Nozipho January- Bardill (DFA) who will be serving on the Committee until January 2008. South Africa will participate in CERD elections for nine vacancies that will take place in New York on 12 January 2006.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS

Department of Justice and Constitutional Development