Rwakazina said the draft text further advanced concrete measures against racism and racial discrimination against people of African descent, and elaborated their rights in accordance with international human rights law. The Working Group now had important elements for the draft declaration contained in the annex of the report.Īfter listing elements in the broad preamble, Ms. Last year the Working Group was particularly honoured by the request made by the General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/76/226, whereby the Working Group was entrusted to elaborate a draft United Nations declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent. Marie Chantal Rwakazina, Chair-Rapporteur of the Inter-governmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, said that the report of the Working Group on its twentieth session stated that as one of the Durban follow-up mechanisms, it had made a valuable contribution to the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the promotion of racial equality. It then heard a presentation by the Inter-governmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action of the report on its twentieth session, and started the general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. The Human Rights Council this morning concluded the general debate on follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Council Concludes General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and Starts General Debate on Racism and Racial Discrimination
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