Abstract
This chapter focuses on the notion, laws, and other aspects related to the concept of racial and religious discrimination. Religious and racial prejudices are phenomena as old as the history of mankind. Ethnocentrism and the feeling of superiority with respect to other races and religions have frequently been created by conflicts with such groups. Present international law regulates the two forms of discrimination with different intensity. Prohibition of racial and religious discrimination appears in the instruments protecting minorities in the period after World War I. The United Nations early developed an activity of enacting special conventions in the field of racial discrimination. It has been observed that the instruments created by specialized agencies cover racial and religious discrimination. A general political problem such as the elimination of racial or religious discrimination can be only partially solved by nonpolitical means.
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