ARIS

Discrimination against individuals or groups based on their race, colour, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin is a basic violation of human rights. 

The Convention

More than thirty years ago (in 1965), the United Nations gave the world a juridical instrument designed to end discrimination: the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. So far, 173 countries (more than three quarters of the member States of the United Nations) have already ratified it.

The Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that oversees the application of the Convention meets twice a year at the Palais Wilson in Geneva.

Our Mission

Many people, however, are still unaware of the existence of this international juridical obstacle to racism and to racial discrimination (or unfamiliar with the way it functions).

The Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS) was set up to make the Convention better known and to publicize the work of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) which monitors the application of the Convention.

For further information : What is Aris ?