A/HRC/42/27 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 July 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 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 Intersessional high-level panel discussion on the incompatibility between democracy and racism: identifying challenges and good practices Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 38/19. It provides a summary of the intersessional high-level panel discussion, held on 2 April 2019, on the theme of incompatibility between democracy and racism: identifying challenges and good practices. * The present report was submitted after the deadline as a result of consultations with the Member States. GE.19-12962(E) 