A/HRC/13/58 2. States that currently lack anti-discrimination mechanisms should establish or designate new mechanisms by December 2010. States that already have mechanisms established should identify concrete steps to improve these mechanisms with the ultimate goal of providing a truly comprehensive antidiscrimination framework within their national government. All Member States should report on their progress by February 2011. 48. The Netherlands noted that guidelines or a compilation of best practices on national mechanisms to prevent and protect against discrimination could be useful. 5. Genocide 49. Statements and/or text proposals were made by South Africa (on behalf of the African Group), Pakistan (on behalf of the OIC), Switzerland, Argentina, Sweden (on behalf of the EU), the United States of America, Rwanda, Armenia, Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group), Turkey, Norway and Canada. The following observers took the floor: Association of World Citizens; Association for World Education and World Union for Progressive Judaism (joint statement); CRED (see A/HRC/13/CRP.1). 50. Considering that the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee is to elaborate complementary standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, South Africa, on behalf of the African Group, supported by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC, proposed that a different forum be established to address this issue. Supporting the fact that this forum was not appropriate for this issue, Turkey recalled that the subject was already covered by existing international instruments. 51. 52. 53. 12 Argentina and Switzerland formulated the following proposals: 1. Allocate appropriate attention and resources to early warning mechanisms and prevention strategies on the international and regional levels; 2. Develop regional ownership of genocide prevention strategies, developing approaches in full respect of social and cultural contexts, in order to complement work and progress made at the international level. Rwanda proposed the following measures: 1. Creation of a monitoring body of the Convention on Genocide, to be called the Committee on Genocide to follow up upon the implementation of the Convention; 2. Creation of a new mandate and appointment of a Special Rapporteur or Independent Expert to examine new trends and all relevant issues related to genocide in coordination with the United Nations special representative of the Secretary-General on genocide; 3. Preparation of an additional protocol to the Convention on Genocide; 4. Preparation of resolutions or recommendations of the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council on this issue. The Armenian delegation proposed the following measures: 1. To initiate a compilation report scrutinizing the various national and supra national legislation which address the issue of combating denial of the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity; 2. To request the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide to comment on the ongoing evolution of the concept of the responsibility to protect. GE.10-10366