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Article: Anti-racism conference proposed during six-week session. (United Nations Commission on Human Rights)
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- UN Chronicle
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- June 1, 1995
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Six weeks of intense deliberations on the current state of human rights in the world took place at the fifty-first session (30 January-10 March, Geneva) of the UN Commission on Human Rights. In one notable move, the Commission asked the General Assembly to consider convening a world conference against "racism, racial and ethnic discrimination, xenophobia and other related contemporary forms of intolerance". The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism was also asked to make concrete recommendations at national, regional and international levels.
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