WG on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.By Corinne

First part of the fifth session
8th of March 2007
10 am to 1 pm:

Item 7: Panel 2

Complementary international standards: preliminary exchange of views with five experts to produce a base document and to make concrete recommendations on the means avenues to bridge thes gap.

Introduction by the Chairman:
He presents the five experts:
- Ms. Goldschmitt from the Netherlands
- Ms. Petrova from Hungary
- M. Stafi Anwa from Indonesia
- M. Maluwa from South Africa
- M. Villalpando from Argentina

Introduction by the experts’ president, M. Villalpando:

Subjects which are most important:
- Racism manifestation
- Worse form and multiple form of racism
- Genocide
- Ethnical purification
- Incentive to racial hatred
- Racial profiling

Victim’s Group of racism:
- Religious group
- Refugee group
- Asylum seeker
- Stateless
- Migrant workers
- Persons displaced
- Community with common ascendance
- Autochthon population
- Populations under foreign occupation
- Other group

The expert’s president asks to the delegation why they had chosen these subjects and which are the most important for them.

The delegations take the floor:


Mexico:
For them the most important: Xenophobia, Worse form and multiple form of racism and autochthon population.

Many countries (Belgium, Britain, Brasil, Argentina, Switzerland) are agree to tell that:

The experts have to use the mechanism of the international law that we already have: The pact about civil and politic right and the CERD.

The racism is often mixed with other discrimination ( as sexual preference, hold persons, women..).

Egypt, Algeria in the name of the African group agreed:
Religious intolerance, under religious discrimination and incentive to religious hatred, are the strongest subject. That is a threat to the peace and to the international security. We need restricting rules.
The increased of the migration, the asylum seekers, the illegal immigrants and the refugee are also really important topics.
According to Egypt discrimination in accordance with sexual preference is no in the CERD and we do not have to about it here.

Bangladesh:
Stereotype, Incentive to religious hatred and religious profiling and intolerance linked with migration are strongest subject.

Norway, Sweden agreed:
The problem is the difference between the rules and their implementation.
The countries should be free to choose which subjects are important for them, like homophobia.

Corinne Nunes