A/HRC/25/69 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 April 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-fifth session 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 Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of complementary standards on its fifth session* ** Chairperson-Rapporteur: Abdul Samad Minty (South Africa) Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decisions 3/103 and 10/30 and resolution 6/21. The report is a summary of proceedings and the discussions which took place during the fifth session of Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of complementary standards. During the session, the Committee considered the questionnaire sent out by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chairperson-Rapporteur’s summary of questionnaire responses on xenophobia, national mechanisms and procedural gaps, pursuant to Council resolution 21/30. With the input of several experts in the relevant fields, substantive discussions took place on the topics of “Xenophobia”, “Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestation of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” and “Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”. The session also heard updates on relevant global and regional developments. * ** The annexes to the present report are circulated as received, in the language of submission only. Late submission. GE.14-13825 *1413825*