A/63/339 9. The General Assembly invited Member States to demonstrate greater commitment to fighting racism in sport by conducting educational and awarenessraising activities and by strongly condemning the perpetrators of racist incidents, in cooperation with national and international sports organizations. 10. The present report is submitted pursuant to the aforementioned resolution, whose main provisions are summarized above. II. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 11. During its seventh session, the Human Rights Council reviewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur and adopted Council resolution 7/34. The terms of reference of the mandate are set out in paragraph 2 of the resolution, in which the Council decided: “To extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a period of three years, to gather, request, receive and exchange information and communications with all relevant sources, on all issues and alleged violations falling within the purview of his/her mandate, and to investigate and make concrete recommendations, to be implemented at the national, regional and international levels, with a view to preventing and eliminating all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, focusing, inter alia, on the following issues: “(a) Incidents of contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination against Africans and people of African descent, Arabs, Asians and people of Asian descent, migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples, as well as other victims included in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; “(b) Situations where the persistent denial of individuals belonging to different racial and ethnic groups of their recognized human rights, as a result of racial discrimination, constitutes gross and systematic violations of human rights; “(c) The scourges of anti-Semitism, Christianophobia, Islamophobia in various parts of the world, and racist and violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas directed at Arab, African, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other communities; “(d) Laws and policies glorifying all historic injustices and fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and underpinning the persistent and chronic inequalities faced by racial groups in various societies; “(e) The phenomenon of xenophobia; “(f) Best practices in the elimination of all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; “(g) Follow-up to the implementation of all relevant paragraphs of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the promotion of the 4 08-49342