A/HRC/43/73 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 5 February 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 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 seventeenth session* Note by the Secretariat Summary 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 seventeenth session, held in Geneva from 16 to 20 December 2019 and on 16 January 2020. The report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights 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.20-01616(E) 