A/HRC/15/45 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 15 July 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifteenth session Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions 63/162 and 64/147 Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 63/162 and 64/147, in which the Assembly requested the Special Rapporteur to prepare for the Human Rights Council a report on the implementation of those resolutions. The present report provides an update to a previous report submitted by the Special Rapporteur to the General Assembly (A/64/295), containing information on activities undertaken by States pursuant to resolution 63/162. The Special Rapporteur will submit a more detailed report, including contributions by States and other stakeholders, to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 64/147. The present report addresses the human rights and democratic challenges posed by extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo-Nazis and skinhead groups, as well as similar extremist ideological movements. The Special Rapporteur, following a brief introduction, examines how these parties, movements and groups may pose challenges to the human rights principles of non-discrimination, the rights to life and to security of person, the rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as to democracy. GE.10-15022 (E) 110810