Human Rights Council
Decision 3/103.
Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the
comprehensive follow-up to the World Conference against
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance and the effective implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action
At its 14th meeting, on 8 December 2006, the Human Rights Council,
recalling its resolution 1/5 of 30 June 2006, all resolutions of the General Assembly
and of the Commission on Human Rights, in particular Assembly resolutions 57/195
of 18 December 2002 and 60/144 of 16 December 2005 and the resolution of the
Third Committee of the General Assembly (A/C.3/61/L.53/Rev.1) adopted on 22
November 2006 as well as Commission resolution 2002/68 of 25 April 2002, on the
subject, decided by a recorded vote of 33 to 12 with 1 abstention:
(a)
To heed the decision and instruction of the 2001 World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by
establishing an Ad Hoc Committee of the Human Rights Council on the Elaboration
of Complementary Standards, with the mandate to elaborate, as a matter of priority
and necessity, complementary standards in the form of either a convention or
additional protocol(s) to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, filling the existing gaps in the Convention and also
providing new normative standards aimed at combating all forms of contemporary
racism, including incitement to racial and religious hatred;
(b)
To recommend that the Ad Hoc Committee shall convene annual
sessions of 10 working days to draw up the requisite legal instruments and hold its
first session before the end of 2007 subject to the Working Group having completed
its task on complementary standards by that date, and to report regularly to the
Council on progress in the actual process of the elaboration of complementary
standards;
(c)
To welcome the recent appointment of the Five Experts on
Complementary Standards by the High Commissioner for Human Rights with the
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