ABSTRACT
Many of the states voting in favour subsequently ratified the Convention but failed to keep their promises to submit reports and to pay their share of the expenses. The Convention against Discrimination in Education, adopted by the General Conference of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1960, contained a very similar definition but extended it to cover any distinction, etc., which had the purpose or effect of nullifying. It described racial discrimination as an offence to human dignity and an obstacle to friendly relations between peoples, but did not define it. The philosophical polarity between the two ways of defining racial discrimination is paralleled by another contrast, which depends upon whether the emphasis is placed on the first word or the second. The claim that all forms of racial discrimination could be eliminated was only one of the errors in the Convention adopted in 1965, but it proved to be of positive value.
