A/HRC/45/47 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 October 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–2 October 2020 Agenda items 2 and 9 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Activities in follow-up to the implementation of the programme of activities within the framework of the International Decade for People of African Descent Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary The present report has been prepared pursuant to paragraph 14 of Human Rights Council resolution 42/29, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in her capacity as coordinator of the International Decade for People of African Descent, to submit a midterm report on her activities in follow-up to the implementation of the programme of activities within the framework of the Decade to the Council at its forty-fifth session. * The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent information. GE.20-13058(E) 