Back اقتراح المساواة العرقية Arabic Vorschlag zur Rassengleichheit German Propono por rasegaleco Esperanto Propuesta de igualdad racial Spanish پیشنهاد برابری نژادی Persian Proposition d'égalité des races French 人種的差別撤廃提案 Japanese 인종적 차별 철폐 제안 Korean Propositum aequalitatis inter rassas Latin Предложение о расовом равенстве Russian
The Racial Equality Proposal (Japanese: 人種的差別撤廃提案, lit. "Proposal to abolish racial discrimination") was an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that was considered at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Proposed by Japan, it was never intended to have any universal implications, but one was attached to it anyway, which caused its controversy.[1] Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida Kōsai stated in June 1919 that the proposal was intended not to demand the racial equality of all coloured peoples but only that of members of the League of Nations.[1]
Though it was broadly supported, the proposal did not become part of the treaty, largely because of opposition by the United States and the dominions of the British Empire Delegation, namely Australia, Canada and New Zealand.[2]
The principle of racial equality was revisited after the war and incorporated into the United Nations Charter in 1945 as a fundamental principle of international justice. However, several countries, including members of the United Nations, would continue to retain racially discriminatory laws for decades after the end of the war.
- ^ a b Shimazu 1998, p. 114.
- ^ MacMillan, Margaret (2003). Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. Random House. pp. 318–319. ISBN 0375760520.