A/HRC/6/10 page 10 V. THEMATIC ANALYSIS: COMPLEMENTARY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS 33. On 8 March 2007, the Working Group benefited from an exchange of views with the five experts selected to conduct the study on gaps in existing international instruments to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and to make concrete recommendations on the avenues and means to bridge those gaps. 34. The experts were Professor Jenny Goldschmidt (Group of Western European and other States); Professor Dimitrina Petrova (Group of Eastern European States); Syafi’i Anwar (Group of Asian States); Professor Tiyanjana Maluwa (Group of African States); and Waldo Luis Villalpando (Group of Caribbean and Latin American States). 35. Mr. Villalpando, the Chairman of the group of experts recalled that they met for the first time in Geneva on 21 and 22 January 2007. He informed delegates that the next meeting of the experts was scheduled for April and that a third meeting would be held in May. He submitted that, despite the limited time allocated to the study, the experts would try their best to produce a report by the end of June. 36. Mr. Villalpando stated that the experts would examine the following categories, as formulated by the Chairman of the Working Group at its fourth session: (a) religious groups; (b) refugees; (c) asylum-seekers; (d) stateless persons; (e) migrant workers; (f) internally displaced persons; (g) descent-based communities; (h) indigenous peoples; (i) minorities; and (j) people under foreign occupation. He added that they would also consider the following phenomena, as formulated by the Chairman of the Working Group: (a) multiple discrimination or aggravated forms of racial discrimination; (b) ethnic cleansing; (c) genocide; (d) religious intolerance and defamation of religious symbols; (e) racial discrimination in the private sphere; and (f) incitement to racial hatred and dissemination of hate speech and xenophobic and caricatural pictures, through traditional mass media and information technology, including the Internet. 37. The Chairman of the group of experts also explained that the identification of gaps should be conducted with the participation of all relevant stakeholders. In that regard, the experts held meetings with members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, members of other treaty bodies, and representatives of non-governmental organizations. At those meetings, the parties stressed that, while the identification of gaps should be conducted with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, States would remain primarily responsible for fulfilling their obligations. 38. Following the introduction by the Chairman, each of the experts expressed their view of the study. One expert asserted that additional standards could be required in those areas specified under the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action but not contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The experts highlighted combating xenophobia as one such area and the use of new information technologies, such as the Internet, for purposes contrary to the respect for human values, equality and non-discrimination, such as for propagating racism, racial discrimination, racial hatred, xenophobia and related intolerance.