A/HRC/40/3 D. Non-discrimination 1. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 49. OHCHR continued to work on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. It supported the launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent in Canada and also on the African continent during the first African Union-United Nations high-level dialogue on human rights. The fellowship programme for people of African descent administered by OHCHR sponsored and empowered activists from 13 countries. 50. OHCHR contributed to the guide on preventing unlawful profiling produced by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. 4 Together with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, it finalized a tool to facilitate measurement of the racial equality of populations of African descent. 51. In Kyrgyzstan, South Africa and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, OHCHR provided advice on harmonizing anti-discrimination legislation and action plans with international human rights standards. In Tunisia, it advised on the drafting of the law against racial discrimination. It also contributed to a training manual on combating incitement to racial and religious hatred for judicial training institutions in the Middle East and North Africa. 2. Migrants 52. OHCHR continued to focus on the human rights of people on the move and countering xenophobia. In the context of negotiations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, it convened strategic stakeholder discussions and provided expert advice to States on the Compact and on the establishment of a new United Nations migration network. It also co-drafted the Principles and Guidelines, Supported by Practical Guidance, on the Human Rights Protection of Migrants in Vulnerable Situations 5 and convened an expert meeting on human rights violations related to the return of migrants. 53. With the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, OHCHR developed a training course for border officials and supported pilot training courses at the regional level (for example in the Middle East and North Africa) based on the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders. It conducted missions to Austria, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Niger to monitor the human rights of migrants, and engaged with the Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela. It pursued its advocacy with the authorities in Australia and Papua New Guinea to protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island. 54. As part of the Stand Up for Migrants campaign, OHCHR launched videos featuring conversations with migrants and their communities. It assisted the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, who assessed the impact of slavery and servitude on marginalized migrant women workers in the global domestic economy (A/HRC/39/52). 55. OHCHR prepared reports on climate change and human rights protection for crossborder migrants (A/HRC/38/21 and A/HRC/37/35), which contributed to the adoption by the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts of recommendations that explicitly reference a rights-based approach to climate-related migration. 3. Discrimination on the basis of indigenous or minority status 56. OHCHR facilitated the inclusion of indigenous peoples in decision-making at the national and international levels. It provided support to Governments and minority 4 5 8 Preventing Unlawful Profiling Today and in the Future: a Guide (Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2018). Available at www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Migration/PrinciplesAndGuidelines.pdf.