The Director of the Centre for Reparation Research CRR at The University of the West Indies UWI, Professor Verene A. Shepherd, has been re-appointed chair of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination CERD.
CERD is the United Nation’s oldest treaty body, and the Committee implements the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
According to Caribbean National Weekly, Professor Shepherd, whose candidacy was supported by CARICOM, is the first citizen from the region as well as the first Jamaican to be a member of CERD and to serve as Chair.
She will serve for the next two years.
