United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/42/59/Add.2
Distr.: General
14 August 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
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
Visit to Argentina
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People
of African Descent*, **
Summary
The present report contains the findings of the Working Group of Experts on
People of African Descent on its visit to Argentina from 11 to 18 March 2019. In the
report, the Working Group presents the current legal, institutional and policy framework
and measures taken to prevent the racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia
and related intolerance faced by people of African descent in Argentina, underscoring
positive developments as well as gaps in implementation. The Working Group describes
the situation, highlights good practices and the main challenges identified, and makes
concrete recommendations.
* Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to
circumstances beyond the submitter’s control.
** The summary of the report is being circulated in all official languages. The report itself, which is
annexed to the summary, is being circulated in the language of submission and Spanish only.
GE.19-13861(E)
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