A/HRC/9/5 page 2 I. INTRODUCTION 1. In a note by the Secretariat (A/HRC/7/43), submitted to the Human Rights Council at its seventh session, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) referred to decision 2/102, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to continue with the fulfilment of their activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, and to update the relevant reports and studies. 2. In the note, OHCHR also made reference to the fact that the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action held the first part of its fifth session in Geneva from 5 to 9 March 2007, and the second part from 3 to 7 September 2007. In the note it was stated that the report of the Working Group on its fifth session (A/HRC/6/10) contained recommendations for OHCHR and that the progress report of OHCHR on the implementation of those recommendations would be submitted to the Council at its ninth session, taking into account the reporting cycle of one year following the conclusion of each session of the Working Group. It is against this background that the present report is being submitted. 3. The Intergovernmental Working Group held its fifth session in two parts. At the end of the session, the Working Group adopted by consensus several recommendations on each of the themes discussed during the two parts of its session. In its recommendations 103-105, the Intergovernmental Working Group invited OHCHR: (a) to post on the Internet relevant information on Durban follow-up activities, thereby facilitating the exchange of information on the follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, and contributing to a higher visibility of those activities; (b) to increase its collaboration with United Nations agencies and country teams with regard to the follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; (c) to take a proactive stance with regard to its capacity to assist States in the preparation and implementation of national plans of action. The present report provides an overview of the activities undertaken by OHCHR to implement those recommendations. II. MEASURES ADOPTED AND ACTIONS TAKEN TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS A. Posting on the Internet of relevant information on Durban follow-up activities 4. The OHCHR website includes a “list of issues” link, which leads to another sub-link entitled “racism”, which in turn leads to a list of the relevant Durban-related documents. In implementing the recommendation of the Working Group regarding the posting of information on the Internet, OHCHR rearranged, updated and improved the sub-link, thus providing access to the documents relating to Durban follow-up activities and the Durban Review Conference. 5. The recommendation to post documents on the Internet was also supported by the Preparatory Committee for the Durban Review Conference. During the first session of the