The outcome document (pdf) from last week's Durban Review ConferenceWorld Conference against Racism held in Durban, South Africa is now available. The conference was held in order to assess measures adopted at the 2001 .
UN Pulse Permanent Link: Durban Review Conference outcome documentThe Durban Review Conference, to be held in Geneva in April, has a new website. The conference will evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001. The website includes documents and other information about the work of the Preparatory Committee.
New Issue Brief from The Century Foundation Reveals the Extent of U.S. Gender and Racial/Ethnic Inequality and Suggests Remedies
Source: The Century Foundation
An examination of the photos and names of those at the top of the political spectrum, from the presidential candidates to the appointees to the top spots in the past few, and next, administration provides a picture of a nation where gender and race/ethnicity do not matter. However, a new report from The Century Foundation shows that despite some progress, America is a nation in which neither minorities nor women have yet achieved anything approaching economic or social equality.
In The Long Wait for Progress: Women and Economic and Social Equality, Century Foundation Senior Fellow Beverly Goldberg analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. This analysis of the complex and interrelated problems facing working women reveals both that women are subject to pay discrimination and that the inequities between white women and women of color are as striking as those between women and men.
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Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
Source: Scholarship at Penn Law
The past 30 years has witnessed a dramatic divergence in family structure by social class, income, education, and race. This article reviews the data on these trends, explores their significance, and assesses social scientists’ recent attempts to explain them. The article concludes that society-wide changes in economic conditions or social expectations cannot account for these patterns. Rather, for reasons that are poorly understood, cultural disparities have emerged by class and race in attitudes and behaviors surrounding family, sexuality, and reproduction. These disparities will likely fuel social and economic inequality and contribute to disparities in children’s life prospects for decades to come.
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The latest report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is now available (A/62/18). The report covers the 70th and 71st sessions, held from 19 February-9 March 2007 and 30 July-17 August 2007. Included in the report are consideration of reports, comments and information submitted by 15 States parties under article 9 of the convention.
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