Jehad M. Institutional mechanisms and procedures of the UN on combating racism and racial discrimination.

The thesis is devoted to the issue of essence, traits and tendencies of development of institutional cooperation on counteracting racism and racial discrimination in the framework of UN. There is the description of main doctrinal approaches to interpretation of the meaning of the term «racial discrimination», its genesis and contemporary tendencies of development. The main institutional elements of the UN system in the context of combat against racism and racial discrimination and their characteristics in the light of composition, legal basis and competence are presented in the thesis. The main focus is concentrated on the procedural traits of application of mechanisms of such bodies as the UN Human Rights Council, the Human Rights Committee and Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The thesis includes the analysis of key challenges in the application of abovementioned mechanisms on the example of procedures of the Human Rights Committee. The author admits the necessity to advance the institutional cooperation on combat against racism and racial discrimination in the framework of the UN through upgrading of the normative status of the decisions of the UN bodies and organizations, using of full potential of modern institutional cooperation and approving complex approach to combat against racism and racial discrimination.