A/HRC/13/58
2.
Help facilitate domestic interfaith meetings including representatives of all
religious communities within their societies to pursue tangible outcomes,
such as service projects in the fields of education, health, conflict resolution,
employment, integration, and media education;
3.
Create a faith-based Advisory Council within the Government to, inter alia,
identify and address potential areas of tension between different racial and
religious communities and assist with conflict resolution and mediation;
4.
Encourage training of government officials on effective outreach strategies;
and
5.
Encourage efforts of community leaders to discuss within their communities
causes of discrimination and practices to counter them.
72.
At the opening of the 10th meeting, the Chairperson introduced the revised draft
programme of work (A/HRC/AC.1/2/CRP.1/Rev.5). Shortly thereafter, a revised draft
programme of work (A/HRC/AC.1/2/CRP.1/Rev.6) was circulated. The Chair stated that it
included a list of issues to be considered by the Ad Hoc Committee without prejudice to the
position of Member States. The programme of work was adopted. The Ad Hoc Committee
accordingly pursued consideration of issues listed in what had now become the adopted
programme of work.
11.
Monitoring procedures of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
and other mechanisms
73.
Statements and/or text proposals were made by the United States of America,
Sweden (on behalf of the EU), Canada, Norway, Japan (on behalf of Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Republic of Korea,
Switzerland and Uruguay), Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group), Cuba, the Syrian Arab
Republic, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil.
The following observers made statements: Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition,
International Council for Human Rights, and the Indian Council of South America (joint
statement); Media Institute of Southern Africa (see A/HRC/13/CRP.1).
74.
Sweden, on behalf of the EU, supported by Canada and Norway, expressed the view
that ratification and implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination and other relevant international treaties was the way to
address all types of racial discrimination, including contemporary forms of racism and
made the following proposals:
1.
States should take seriously their reporting to the United Nations treaty
bodies and submit their reports in time;
2.
States should enhance follow-up to the implementation of the
recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination.
75.
Japan, on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay, added that the adoption
of a procedural instrument could be envisaged, provided that experts of the Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found this meaningful. It made the following
suggestion:
That the Ad Hoc Committee invite the members of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination to exchange views on its concrete proposals.
76.
Greece called
parliamentarians.
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for
a
multi-stakeholder
dialogue
which
would
include
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