UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/12/38 1 July 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth 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, Githu Muigai, on the manifestations of defamation of religions, and in particular on the serious implications of Islamophobia, on the enjoyment of all rights by their followers GE.09-14430 (E) 060709