United Nations

CERD/C/103/3

International Convention on the Elimination of A ll Forms of Racial Discrimination

Distr.: General

18 February 2021

Original: English

English, French and Spanish only

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

103 rd session

19-30 April 2021

Item 10 of the provisional agenda

Consideratio n of copies of petitions, copies of reports and other information relating to Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories and to all other territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) applies, in conformity with article 15 of the Convention

Consideration of copies of petitions, copies of reports and other information relating to Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories and to all other territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) applies, in conformity with article 15 of the Convention

Note by the Secretary-General

1.At its ninety-ninth session, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered copies of reports and other documentation relating to Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories submitted to it in 2018 in accordance with decisions of the Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in conformity with article 15 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee’s expressions of opinion and recommendations were submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session in accordance with article 15 (3) of the Convention, as well as to the United Nations bodies concerned.

2.At its 2019 and 2020 sessions, the Special Committee continued to follow the work of the Committee and to monitor related developments in the Territories, having regard to the relevant provisions of article 15 of the Convention.

3.Any further action that the Special Committee may take in connection with the transmission of information to the Committee under article 15 of the Convention will be brought to the attention of the Committee at a later date, as appropriate.

4.In accordance with earlier decisions of the Special Committee and the Trusteeship Council, however, the Secretary-General will make available to the Committee, at its 103rd session, the working papers on the various Territories prepared by the secretariat for the Special Committee and the Trusteeship Council in 2019 and 2020.

5.Accordingly, the Committee will have before it at its 103rd session the following documents:

A/AC.109/2019/1American SamoaA/AC.109/2020/1

A/AC.109/2019/2Anguilla A/AC.109/2020/2

A/AC.109/2019/3BermudaA/AC.109/2020/3

A/AC.109/2019/4British Virgin Islands A/AC.109/2020/4

A/AC.109/2019/5Cayman IslandsA/AC.109/2020/5

A/AC.109/2019/6Falkland Islands (Malvinas)A/AC.109/2020/6

A/AC.109/2019/7French PolynesiaA/AC.109/2020/7

A/AC.109/2019/8GibraltarA/AC.109/2020/8

A/AC.109/2019/9GuamA/AC.109/2020/9

A/AC.109/2019/10MontserratA/AC.109/2020/10

A/AC.109/2019/11New Caledonia A/AC.109/2020/11

A/AC.109/2019/12Pitcairn A/AC.109/2020/12

A/AC.109/2019/13Saint HelenaA/AC.109/2020/13

A/AC.109/2019/14Tokelau A/AC.109/2020/14

A/AC.109/2019/15Turks and Caicos IslandsA/AC.109/2020/15

A/AC.109/2019/16United States Virgin IslandsA/AC.109/2020/16

A/AC.109/2019/17Western SaharaA/AC.109/2020/17

6.Working papers relating to other Territories which may be prepared by the secretariat will be submitted to the Committee as they become available, as will copies of petitions, documents and decisions that the Special Committee may decide to transmit to the Committee under article 15 of the Convention.