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10th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

The Working Group held its tenth session from 8 to 19 October 2012, in Geneva, Palais des Nations, room XXI.

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REPORT ON "GLOBAL EFFORTS FOR THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE":

DOCUMENTATION:

LIST OF PANELLISTS:

Sharing experience on good practices and update on the anti-racism campaign during the 2012 European Football Cup

  • Mr. Patrick Gasser, Director of Football and Social Responsibility Unit (Union of European Football Associations - UEFA)
  • Mr. Piara Powar (Executive Director of Football Against Racism in Euorope - FARE)

Role of politicians and political parties in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:

  • Ms. Nazila Ghanea,  Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford - Presentation
  • Mr. Alvaro Bello Maldonado, Researcher- Department of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Temuco (Chile) - Presentation: 1-2
  • Mr. Alain Didier Olinga, Lecturer in Public Law, University of Yaoundé II - Presentation
  • Mr.  Ben Chigara Professor of Law- Brunel University- UK - Presentation
  • Mr. Jérôme Jamin, Professor at the University of Liège - Presentation
  • Mr. Oscar Javier Parra Vera, Senior staff attorney at the Registry of the Inter American Court of Human Right - Presentation
  • Ms. Lucrezia Meier-Schatz, Member of the Swiss Federal Assembly (National Council) and of the Federal Assembly delegation to the Inter-Paliamentary Union - Presentation
  • Written contribution by Mr. Mutuma Ruteere, Special Rapporteur on compemporary forms of racism
The enhancement of international and regional cooperation with regard to the implementation of the DDPA: 
  • Ms. Floriane Hohenberg  Head, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department- OSCE-ODIHR
  • Mr. Hilaire Sobers, Human Rights Specialist, Rapporteurship on People of African Descent and Against Racial Discrimination - Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States - Presentation
  • Mr. Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Executive Director of the OIC Human Rights Commission (IPHRC)
  • Mr. Mutumba, Obert – UNESCO
  • Ms. Laurence boisson de chazournes, Member of the HRCAC, Professor at UNIGE
  • Ms. Catherine Lynch, (Director, European Network Against Racism (ENAR)-Ireland)

Implementation of the Intergovernmental Working Group's recommendations on its 9th session

REPORTS:
  • Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on its ninth session (A/HRC/19/77)
    E F S A C R
  • Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its tenth session (A/HRC/18/45)
    E F S A C R
  • Report of the Secretary-General on Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
    E A R

RESOLUTIONS:

  • HRC resolution A/HRC/21/L.29 (From rhetoric to reality)
    E 
  • GA resolution A/RES/65/240 (Global efforts)
    E F S A C R
  • HRC resolution A/HRC/RES/13/27 (A world of sports free from racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance)
    E F S A C R

TREATY-BASED BODIES:

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:

  • General Recommendation No. 33: Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference
    E F S R C A
  • General Recommendation No. 32: The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discriminatio
    E F S R C A
  • General Recommendation No. 28: The follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
    E F S
  • General Recommendation No. 25: Gender related dimensions of racial discrimination
    E F S

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:

  • General Comment No. 20: Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (art. 2, para. 2, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
    E F S R C A

Committee on the Rights of the Child:

  • General Comment No. 11: Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention
    E F S R C A
  • General Comment No. 9: The rights of children with disabilities
    E F S R C A

Human Rights Committee:

  • General Comment No. 23: The rights of minorities (Art. 27)
    E
  • General Comment No. 18 “Non-discrimination”
    E
  • General comment No. 34 : Article 19: Freedoms of opinion and expression
    E F S R C A

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE, Githu Muigai:

General Assembly

  • Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai Interim report A/66/313
    E F S A C R
  • Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai Report on the implementation of GA resolution 65/199 A/66/312
    E F S A C R

Human Rights Council

  • Study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights A/HRC/19/74
    E
  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai
    A/HRC/18/44
    E
  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai
    A/HRC/17/40
    E F S A C R