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(c)
Decides to invite the members of all the relevant mechanisms to
participate in its annual sessions to discuss issues pertaining to the fight against
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including the
challenges they face in their work;
(d)
Recommends that OHCHR continue to facilitate the participation of
experts in the annual sessions of all the Durban follow-up mechanisms, and to provide
advice with a view to contribute to discussions on the implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action;
(e)
Invites Member States, international and non-governmental
organizations and individuals, as well as donors in a position to do so, to contribute to
this end, thereby undertaking activities for the effective implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action;
(f)
Invites OHCHR to take measures in accordance with paragraph 193 of
the Durban Programme of Action for the appointment and designation of goodwill
ambassadors in all countries of the world in order, inter alia, to promote respect for
human rights and a culture of tolerance and to increase the level of awareness of the
scourge of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
(g)
Urges the High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue his efforts
to increase awareness of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance and to encourage his Office to intensify its collaboration with international
and regional bodies dealing with the fight against these phenomena;
(h)
Recognizes the importance of continued efforts aimed at improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of Durban follow-up mechanisms, and commits to increase
efforts aimed at avoiding overlapping and/or duplication of initiatives;
(i)
C.
Decides to keep this agenda item under consideration.
Review of progress achieved concerning the implementation of
recommendations adopted by the Working Group at its previous
session
62.
The Working Group:
(a)
Takes note of the various contributions made by Member States under
this agenda item;
(b)
Reaffirms the importance of assessing the level of implementation of its
recommendations, sharing practices and discussing challenges and the way forward.
The Working Group encourages Member States to make full use of the opportunity
offered by discussion of this agenda item;
(c)
Decides that, with a view to better structure the discussion under this
agenda item, for its future session, it will engage in such a discussion on the basis of a
working document prepared by OHCHR. Such a document should include a
compilation of the implementation by Member States and other relevant stakeholders
of recommendations from the previous session and an outline/analysis of major trends
and challenges;
(d)
Requests, in this regard, that OHCHR circulate the report after each
session and invite all Member States, international and regional organizations,
national human rights institutions and equality bodies, and civil society organizations
to submit relevant information to serve as a basis for discussions;
(e)
Reaffirms the importance of the recommendations on the
commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action;
(f)
Recognizes that much remains to be done to commemorate the fifteenth
anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and invites Member
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