A/HRC/25/19 still ongoing during the period under review. Negotiations with the Government of Myanmar to establish an OHCHR country office have also been ongoing. 6. Between December 2012 and November 2013, I undertook visits to (in chronological order) Angola, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia and Kosovo,2 Austria, Cameroon, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Slovenia, Poland, Afghanistan, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ireland and France, in addition to regular visits to Headquarters to brief the Security Council and the General Assembly. The Deputy High Commissioner visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen. The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights conducted missions to Côte d’Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Guinea-Bissau and the Central African Republic. 7. The constant increase in demands placed on OHCHR, including new mandated activities, has tested the limits of the Office’s already limited resources. I am grateful to my staff for their hard work and dedication, and count on Member States to increase overall financial support for OHCHR to enable it to undertake effectively our ever-expanding work, not least in the light of the “Rights Up Front” plan of action. II. Thematic priorities A. Discrimination 1. Racial discrimination 8. OHCHR worked on supporting a substantive approach to the work of the Durban follow-up mechanisms, which now also serve as a forum for the exchange of good practices against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. OHCHR continues to experience difficulties in securing a meeting of the independent eminent experts, who, despite the efforts of the Office, were once again unable to meet during the year under review. 9. Together with the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), OHCHR initiated a campaign to sensitize the public on the eradication of racism in sport consistent with the discussions held during the eleventh session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. 10. A database on practical means to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance was launched by the Office in September 2013 to increase the capacity of Member States and other stakeholders in this field. This tool contains more than 1,500 documents and information from more than 90 countries. 11. OHCHR provided Governments with advice on policies and programmes to eradicate racial discrimination and to promote equality, and in the review of antidiscrimination legislation. It organized national and regional meetings and supported various national institutions in, inter alia, Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Nigeria, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. In the past year, seven young individuals were empowered through 2 4 All references to Kosovo in the present report should be understood in full compliance with Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.