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the potential of the Committee to take meaningful measures consistent with its mandate to
improve the lives of victims. He further stated that he viewed it as an abdication of the
collective responsibility and a failure of all to work together and make a contribution. He
urged the members of the Ad Hoc Committee to work together and keep in mind the big
picture in the coming sessions.
91.
At the resumed 16th meeting, and resulting from the informal discussions, the Ad
Hoc Committee agreed that the following recommendations, outcomes and list of topics
would be discussed at the eighth session of the Committee:
(a)
Recommendations and outcomes:
(i)
The Committee recommends that the questionnaire be recirculated to all
States, that those who have not responded be encouraged do so and that those who
have responded provide updates;
(ii)
The Committee decides to continue its discussion on the issue of racism and
sport and reaffirms the related conclusions adopted at its sixth session;
(iii)
The Committee recommends that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination update, either in the form of an addendum or a new report, its 2007
report on complementary international standards (A/HRC/4/WG.3/7).
(b)
List of topics:
(i)
The Ad Hoc Committee recommends that the Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination further elaborate its views on key elements with regard to
procedural gaps and best ways to address them, in follow-up to the 2007 study and
the different presentations given and proposals made to the Ad Hoc Committee in
accordance with its mandate;
(c)
Racism and sport:
(i)
The Ad Hoc Committee will discuss effective and adequate remedies and the
right to seek from competent national tribunals and other national institutions just
and adequate reparation and satisfaction for victims, consistent with article 6 of the
Convention and paragraph 165 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.
92.
Also at the meeting, the report of the seventh session was adopted ad referendum,
with the understanding that delegations would send any technical corrections to their
interventions in writing to the secretariat by 7 August 2015.
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