Human Rights Protection
Institutions have begun to address rights against discrimination based on various social attributes like race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation, which had previously been ignored because of their controversial nature. Issues of racial superiority permeated the atmosphere even at early UN meetings. Delegates from Asia, Africa, and South America experienced discrimination. It was considered a great achievement when the Commission on Human Rights completed the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Throughout the decades since the human rights machinery was established concerns remained about social equality, economic disparities, and racial hierarchies. At the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa in 2001 there was discussion of the devastating consequences of colonialism, particularly in Africa. UNFPA also recognizes that a rights-based approach should be founded...