A/HRC/29/47
The present report includes the recommendations made on the issue by the Special
Rapporteur in his previous reports to the General Assembly (A/69/334) and the Human
Rights Council (A/HRC/26/50 and A/HRC/23/24) as they remain applicable and valid,
despite efforts made to address the problem of glorification of Nazism and other practices
that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia
and related intolerance. Those recommendations are clustered at the end of the report by
sectors for easy reference.
The Special Rapporteur is of the view that the current requirement to report twice
per year on this specific issue is not an optimal mechanism for fulfilling the obligations of
his mandate as set out in General Assembly resolution 69/160 and, considering that there
have been no major developments since the presentation of his last report on the issue to
the General Assembly and to the Human Rights Council, he is of the view that those
obligations would be best served by the submission of a single report annually to the
Assembly. The Special Rapporteur believes that other streams of his work could be used to
address this important issue in a concrete way, which could allow for more in-depth
dialogue and engagement with Governments, non-governmental organizations and relevant
actors, thus enabling them to work in a concerted fashion towards the implementation of
both existing and future recommendations.
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