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ARIS is closing
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We will be officially, physically and permanently closed as of 15 April 2009.
The ARIS website will continue to provide basic information until July.
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Dear Web Visitor,
We are sorry to have to inform you that after all these years of collaborating with CERD, supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and compiling relevant documentation, ARIS will have to close. Funding became difficult in recent years, then slowed to a trickle. Even though the ARIS budget is very small because almost everyone is a volunteer, there are still costs "to keep the lights on". Last year we elaborated a proposal for a new version of ARIS, with a focus on training and strengthening national and regional NGOs. The proposal generated positive interest on the part of a number of potential new funding sources, and we pursued the project with them over the past several months. But despite these sustained efforts, and perhaps because of the general economic and financial crisis, their final responses were negative.
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For information from CERD, consult
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
For documentation on human rights, consult
International Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS)
For further information try other organizations working in the area of racial discrimination., shown on our Links page.
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We offer the following materials for downloads:
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The ARIS thesaurus
The ARIS database of bibliographic references
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ARIS
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Discrimination against individuals or groups based on their race, colour, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin is a basic violation of human rights.
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The ConventionMore 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.
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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 ?
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