A/HRC/9/5 page 4 Conference; issuing and developing publications; paying special attention to the commemoration of relevant international days, especially the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition; including information about the Review Conference and the preparatory process within the context of their respective public information activities; and preparing parallel events to the process or during the Review Conference. OHCHR regularly updates agencies on the process leading up to the Review Conference and is planning to convene a meeting with Geneva-based focal points shortly. 2. Collaboration with United Nations country teams 10. Every year, OHCHR organizes a special event to commemorate 21 March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Following the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Working Group, OHCHR made a special effort to ensure that United Nations agencies and country teams were increasingly involved in the commemoration in 2008, which focused on the theme “Dignity and justice: the cornerstones of combating racial discrimination”. The commemoration was organized jointly with the International Organization of la Francophonie. 11. OHCHR produced a leaflet for the observance of 21 March in support of the year-long campaign commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The outreach material was circulated to OHCHR field offices, United Nations agencies and media, and was also posted on the OHCHR website. The overall objective of the leaflet and its dissemination was to increase the visibility of the commemoration of 21 March and OHCHR actions in the field of anti-discrimination, including through Durban follow-up activities. 12. As part of its strategy to increase collaboration with United Nations country teams in preparation for the Review Conference, OHCHR organized a consultation with its field presences, held in Geneva on 27 and 28 December 2007 and was attended by OHCHR field representatives from 10 field presences, mainly from Africa and Asia, where awareness of the Durban processes had been poorest. 13. The aim of the consultation was to identify the means to improve dissemination of information and to design strategies by engaging field-based stakeholders, in particular country teams, in improving implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and contributing to the preparatory processes of the Durban Review Conference. 14. The brainstorming on problems, challenges and opportunities in the process of popularizing the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and other anti-racism initiatives resulted in an agreement on some broad but specific strategies that could be implemented to engage stakeholders further in the issues of racism and encourage their involvement in the Durban review processes currently under way. Some of the strategies emerging from the brainstorming included the filling of the existing knowledge gap by preparing an information kit for use by the field on the Durban process, and addressing the negative perceptions about the 2001 Durban Conference and the Declaration and Programme of Action.