Prohibition against all forms of racial discrimination: policy, law and reality

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Title:	Prohibition against all forms of racial discrimination: policy, law and reality
Author:	Gondwe, Zebron Steven
Year:	1996
Periodical:	Lesotho Law Journal: A Journal of Law and Development
Volume:	9
Issue:	2
Pages:	13-34
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	racism human rights
Abstract:	In most, if not all jurisdictions, reality belies political and legal denunciations of racial discrimination. With reference to international, regional and Tanzanian instruments, the author attempts to explain the departure of reality from policy and law. He examines racial discrimination and its prohibition in relation to the concept of human rights, and against the background of such instruments as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, 1977, which has enacted all of TANU's and Chama Cha Mapinduzi's (CCM)inv beliefs, and the principal aims and objects which reject racial discrimination. He notes that the culture of racial tolerance which has existed in Tanzania to date is being put to the test by the increasing economic disparity between Indian and African Tanzanians. Note, ref.