Sentences with phrase «request for urgent action»
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has requested the Australian Government to respond to a Request for Urgent Action submitted by a number of Aboriginal people residing in Prescribed Areas in the Northern Territory who are subject to the measures of the Northern Territory Intervention.
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Native title is, today, still governed by the exact same legal structure as that which, in 1998, caused the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) to put Australia under its Urgent Action procedure and request an explanation for this extreme imposition of discriminatory policy.
The CERD monitors and reviews the actions of States who are parties to the Convention through four main mechanisms [4]: the periodic reporting mechanism [5]; requests for further information from States parties (for example, the early warning / urgent action procedure)[6]; individual communications [7]; and state - to - state complaints.