E UNITED NATIONS Economic and Social Council Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/2005/21 26 January 2005 ENGLISH Original: ENGLISH/FRENCH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-first session Item 6 (a) of the provisional agenda RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION: COMPREHENSIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF AND FOLLOW-UP TO THE DURBAN DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION Report of the Working Group of Experts and People of African Descent on its fourth session (Geneva, 25 October-5 November 2004)∗ Chairperson-Rapporteur: Mr. Peter Lesa Kasanda Summary At its fourth session, the Working Group examined the themes of racism and employment, racism and health, and racism and housing. Each theme was presented by a set of panellists and discussions followed on the main issues and challenges which are to be tackled in addressing effectively racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance with regard to people of African descent. Overall, the panellists shared the same view concerning the difficulties in evaluating the extent of discrimination due to conceptual limitations and inadequacies in the collection of data. The Working Group adopted several recommendations on each theme. ∗ The annexes are circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.05-10498 (E) 170205 210205