A/HRC/3/7
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(d)
To request the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective
Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to invite the Five Experts
to the first part of its fifth session, with the view of having a preliminary exchange of views and
vision on complementary standards as a provisional measure pending the completion of their
report;
(e)
To request the Five Experts to finalize their report before the end of June 2007 for
submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and also to request the
latter to ensure immediate circulation of the report of the experts, in all official languages, to all
Governments and all other relevant partners and stakeholders in order to allow all these
institutions adequate opportunity and time to study the recommendations contained therein;
(f)
To recommend that the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective
Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action convene the second part of
its fifth session in September 2007 and that this session mark the conclusion and closure of the
Working Group’s debates and deliberations on the question of complementary standards;
(g)
To invite, in the above context, the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental
Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action to transmit the report of the Five Experts to the Ad Hoc Committee through the Human
Rights Council;
(h)
To request that the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective
Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action continue its important
work of ensuring the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action as mandated by Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/68 of 25 April 2002 by
focusing on other critical segments of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action that
require immediate attention;
(i)
To request that the Ad Hoc Committee convene its first session before the end
of 2007 and use all the documents presented to it as background material for commencing its
process of elaborating complementary standards, and that one of its main priorities be to ensure
that the requisite legal instrument(s) is/are produced for negotiations;
(j)
To request that the High Commissioner give visibility and a high profile to the
Anti-Discrimination Unit within her Office and provide it with all the necessary and additional
resources to ensure its effectiveness, particularly in view of the current challenges of racial and
religious discrimination, so that the Unit ensures that the High Commissioner makes a positive
contribution and plays a leadership role in the global efforts to combat all the resurgent scourges
of racism;
(k)
To retain this priority issue on its programme of work and to review progress at
its fourth session.
[See chap. III.]
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