Re-election to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

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Patrick Thornberry

Posted on 23 January 2010

At a specially convened meeting in New York of States parties to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor Patrick Thornberry of SPIRE was re-elected as a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) receiving the outstandingly high number of votes - 144.

Candidates are nominated by their home State and voted on by governments assembling at the UN. Professor Thornberry has been a member of CERD since 2001 and this is his third election. He will serve as an independent expert on the Committee for another four years. Only two other UK universities enjoy the honour of providing candidates to the UN human rights bodies.


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