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The delegate encouraged other countries to support the creation of a forum of people of
African descent and to promote international rules to regulate online hate speech.
VII. Preliminary exchange of views on the preparations of the
twentieth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action
84.
The Working Group devoted one meeting to a preliminary exchange of views on the
preparations for the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action. The outcome of those discussions will be reflected in a separate report
to be presented to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session and to the Human Rights
Council at its forty-fifth session.
VIII. Conclusions and recommendations
A.
1.
Situation of racial discrimination worldwide
Conclusions
85.
The Working Group:
(a)
Expresses concern with regard to the increase in the incitement to violence, racial
hatred, hate speech, hate crimes, neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism and violent nationalist
ideologies based on racial or national prejudice, including the resurgence of white
supremacist ideologies that fuel contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, in particular in relation to Africans, people of
African descent, Asians and people of Asian descent, Roma, Travelers, Sinti, migrants,
refugees and asylum seekers;
(b)
Emphasizes the need to shift away from approaches that manage racial conflict
and disparities through policies that keep historical vested interests intact and from the
language of “hatred”, “intolerance” and “prejudice”, to an approach that analyses
structural power relations, institutions and systems that reproduce racial inequalities
and seeks to understand and deconstruct the historical links and current situation of
inequalities;
(c)
Acknowledges that many contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance are related to the legacy of slavery, the slave trade,
especially the transatlantic slave trade, apartheid, colonialism and genocide and also
acknowledges that slavery and the slave trade are crimes against humanity and should
always have been so, especially the transatlantic slave trade, and are among the major
sources and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance;
(d)
Recognizes that the complexity of debates about racial justice and equality must
reflect the complexity and richness of people of African descent, indigenous peoples,
national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, migrants and refugees;
(e)
Recognizes that victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance can suffer from multiple, aggravated and intersecting forms of
discrimination based on other related grounds, such as sex, language, religion, political
or other opinion, social origin, property, birth, disability or other status;
(f)
Notes with concern that the automatic processing of personal data for individual
profiling, automated decision-making and machine-learning technologies, sometimes
referred as artificial intelligence, without adequate safeguards and oversight in their
design, development, evaluation and regulation, may lead to discrimination or decisions
with a negative impact on people of African descent, minorities, migrants and others;
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