A/62/306 minorities in decision-making processes in political, cultural and economic life, with a view to ending the two primary manifestations of the discrimination they suffer: invisibility and silence. To combat incitement to racial and religious hatred by racist and xenophobic platforms, he recommends the adoption of legal, political and administrative measures to ensure the observance and complementarity of the rights guaranteed under the relevant legal instruments, particularly those concerning freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur underscores the importance of linking efforts to combat racism, discrimination and xenophobia to the construction of a democratic, egalitarian and interactive multiculturalism based on the acknowledgement, observance and promotion of cultural, ethnic and religious diversity and the promotion of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. B. Coordination with other human rights mechanisms 23. The Special Rapporteur strengthened his cooperation with the AntiDiscrimination Unit of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by continuing the process of regular consultations begun at the outset of his mandate and by participating in a number of activities organized by the Unit. 24. Accordingly, the Special Rapporteur took part in the thematic debate “Discussion and analysis of racial profiling”, held in Geneva during the sixth session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (29 January2 February 2007). This event, which brought together international experts on the subject, dealt inter alia with the definition of racial profiling, the problem of racial profiling in the administration of justice, the human impact of racial profiling, the resurgence and increasing legitimization of this phenomenon in the context of counter-terrorism, and national and regional measures to combat racial profiling. In his statement, which concerned the meaning of racial profiling in the context of the increase in racism, the Special Rapporteur referred to issues such as the need to analyse racial, ethnic and religious profiling as a universal phenomenon, while taking into account the serious resurgence in this practice as a result of the combination, in the ideological and political aftermath of 11 September 2001, of the overemphasis on counter-terrorism at the expense of respect for human rights, on the one hand, and the conflation of race, culture and religion, on the other. 25. In addition, the Special Rapporteur participated in the high-level panel discussion “Racism and discrimination: obstacles to development”, held in Geneva on 21 March 2007 to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his analysis of the links between racial discrimination, good governance and development, he emphasized the increase in a type of discourse based on the dominant ideology of economic development and the market, which tends to equate economic underdevelopment with cultural backwardness by attributing underdevelopment to a “failure to adapt” to modernity and the “archaic” cultures and values of developing-country societies. This discourse, which has traditionally been used in the political sphere by extreme right-wing parties and, increasingly, by supposedly democratic parties, is emblematic of the setbacks being observed in efforts to combat racism, as it signals a kind of racist return of the repressed, a reformulation of the old justification of political domination on the 07-49048 9