TY - BOOK AU - Thornberry, Patrick TI - The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Commentary SN - 9780199265336 U1 - 341.48 PY - 2016/// CY - UK PB - Oxford University Press KW - Law N1 - The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on skin colour, descent, ethnic, and national origin. Victims of discrimination within the scope of the Convention include minorities, indigenous peoples, non-citizens, and caste or descent groups. Virtually all national societies are diverse in terms of ethnicity or 'race' and none is free from discrimination, making it one of the great issues of our time ER -