UNITED

NATIONS

A

General Assembly

Distr.

LIMITED

A/HRC/6/L.9

21 September 2007

Original: ENGLISH

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Sixth session

Agenda item 9

RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED

FORMS OF INTOLERANCE: FOLLOW-UP AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

DURBAN DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION

Egypt (on behalf of the African Group) : draft resolution

6/… From Rhetoric to Reality: A global call for concrete action against Racism, Racial

Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

The Human Rights Council

,

Recalling

its resolution 3/103 of 08 December 2006,

Welcoming

United Nations General Assembly resolution 61/149 by which the Assembly will be

convening the Durban Review Conference in 2009 to review the imple mentation of the Durban

Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), to take further action and initiatives and to

address the current manifestations of racism, incitement to racial and religious hatred,

Deploring

the surge and sharp increases in xenophobic and racial tendencies in certain regions of

the world particularly towards those categories of victims already identified in the Durban

Declaration and Programme of Action such as migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers,

/…