A/HRC/42/58 I. Introduction 1. The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards submits the present report pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 3/103 and resolutions 6/21 and 10/30. II. Organization of the session 2. The Ad Hoc Committee held its tenth session from 8 to 18 April 2019. During the session, the Committee held 18 meetings. A. Attendance 3. The session was attended by representatives of Member States, non-Member States represented by observers, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (see annex III). B. Opening of the session 4. The tenth session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was opened by the Chief of the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). C. Election of the Chair-Rapporteur 5. At its 1st meeting, the Ad Hoc Committee elected Taonga Mushayavanhu, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations Office at Geneva, as its Chair-Rapporteur, by acclamation. 6. The Chair-Rapporteur thanked the Ad Hoc Committee for his re-election and recommitted himself to continuing to cooperate with all Member States and stakeholders in fulfilling the mandate of the Committee. 7. He observed that the programme of work during the session would be broadly divided into two parts: the first four days would be devoted to presentations by experts and discussions on three agreed topics, while preliminary negotiations on an additional protocol to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination would take up the remaining five days of the session. 8. He recalled that the Committee was mandated by the Human Rights Council in December 2006, “to elaborate, as a matter of priority and necessity, complementary standards in the form of either a convention or additional protocol/s to the Convention, filling the existing gaps in the Convention and also providing new normative standards aimed at combating all forms of contemporary racism, including incitement to racial and religious hatred”. 9. The Chair-Rapporteur added that in December 2016 and March 2017, the General Assembly in resolution 71/181 and the Human Rights Council in resolution 34/36 respectively, had requested the Chair-Rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee, “to ensure the commencement of the negotiations on the draft additional protocol criminalizing acts of a racist and xenophobic nature”. The General Assembly had since adopted two further related resolutions, namely, 72/157 and 73/262 in December 2017 and December 2018, respectively. He noted that these resolutions pointed to a frustration that the Ad Hoc Committee was not making the expected progress and that there was clearly a push for it to deliver on its mandate. 2