A/HRC/38/52 I. Activities of the Special Rapporteur 1. A. The present report is submitted pursuant to Council resolution 34/35. Country visits 2. Following her appointment, the Special Rapporteur renewed the formal requests for country visits sent by her predecessors to Algeria, Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa and Tunisia. She also sent requests to Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Oman, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago. She urges States that have not yet responded positively to her visit requests to do so. 3. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for inviting her to conduct a visit from 30 April to 11 May 2018. She also thanks the Governments of Brazil, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland and Qatar for accepting her visit requests. B. Other activities 4. In November 2017, the Special Rapporteur delivered a video statement at the regional meeting for Europe, Central Asia and North America on the International Decade for People of African Descent. On 22 February 2018, she participated in the annual parliamentary hearing of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, entitled “Towards a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration: A parliamentary perspective”. In March 2018, she attended the 167th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Bogotá, during which she engaged with local civil society organizations. During the twenty-second session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, from 19 to 23 March 2018, she delivered a video statement on land rights for people of African descent. 5. On 20 March 2018, the Special Rapporteur was a keynote speaker at the commemorative plenary meeting of the General Assembly in New York on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On the same day, she participated in the official launch of the Group of Friends on the Elimination of Racism. On 21 March 2018, she participated in a special event celebrating the International Decade for People of African Descent, entitled “A decade of recognition for the contributions, achievements and challenges of people of African descent worldwide”. While in New York, she held an informal consultation with local civil society organizations and other interested stakeholders. Participants discussed setting an international human rights anti-racism agenda in the shadow of populist nationalism. II. Racial discrimination in the context of citizenship, nationality and immigration status 6. The present report identifies and reviews contemporary racist and xenophobic ideologies, and institutionalized laws, policies and practices, which together have a racially discriminatory effect on individuals’ and groups’ access to citizenship, nationality and immigration status. It shows how both are prohibited under international human rights law and recommends concrete actions States must take to fulfil their obligations to achieve substantive racial equality. It highlights the impact of ethno-nationalism, and draws attention to how ethno-nationalists and other groups manipulate national anxieties about national security and economic prosperity to achieve and advance racist and xenophobic policies against indigenous peoples, non-nationals and other minority groups. In doing so, it calls attention both to explicit ideologies of racial superiority and to structural racism that occurs through institutions and policies that might otherwise be ignored due to the absence of explicit racial, ethnic or religious animus. To inform the drafting of the present report, the Special Rapporteur issued a call for submissions to the various stakeholders of her mandate. She received and reviewed 25 submissions from Member States and 13 submissions from civil society organizations. She welcomes these submissions and encourages wider 3