A/HRC/40/75 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 January 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Fortieth session 25 February–22 March 2019 Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on its sixteenth session Note by the Secretariat* The Secretariat has the honour to transmit the report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on its sixteenth session, held in Geneva from 27 August to 7 September 2018 and from 11 to 12 December 2018. The report was prepared pursuant to Council resolution 34/34. * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.19-01424(E) 