A/76/434 of the Durban follow-up mechanisms, there have been shortcomings in the financial support for and organizational commitment to the follow-up to Durban within the United Nations (see A/73/98/Add.1, para. 5). For example, the Group of Independent Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action has faced difficulties in coordinating its activities over the past 20 years, including a period of several years in which it held no official meetings. At one point, the Group had only two members (see A/HRC/29/54). Although some of its members remained active participants in the Durban follow-up process, 94 the Group has noted the confusion regarding its mandate and the lack of adequate financial support therefor (A/HRC/26/56, para. 6), and the mechanism still does not have a representative from the Group of Western European and other States. In another example, the immensely helpful guidance produced by OHCHR for States c reating national plans of action against racism was not published until 2014 – nearly 13 years after the Durban Declaration was first adopted. And the OHCHR database on anti-racism practices, which was called for in the Programme of Action, was not operational until 2013 (A/69/354, para. 92). 77. Although OHCHR, in particular through its Anti-Racial Discrimination Section, has dedicated itself to advancing the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action through technical support, concerns were raised in one submission that the document had not yet been widely translated into non-official United Nations languages. 95 Groups also expressed concerns with delays in publicizing and promoting the meetings of the Durban Review Conference, and observed that promotion of the document was not a priority at all levels of OHCHR. They contended that the United Nations had never made a recognizable or impactful effort to provide information on the clarity of the document and advocate its full implementation, despite the adoption of many resolutions thereon. 96 In 2009, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights observed that human and financial resources available to the Section (previously referred to as the Anti-Discrimination Unit) had been very limited, which had negatively affected the implementation of its activities to support the mechanisms (A/CONF.211/PC.4/5, para. 15). 78. In many ways, this organizational marginalization is unsurprising. United Nations institutions are stretched for resources as it is, and the politicized environment surrounding the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action creates incentives to deprioritize its implementation and publici zation. Countering the marginalization of the document within the United Nations thus requires sustained re-engagement by the Organization’s leaders, as well as overcoming systemic disengagement by powerful States from the Durban process. C. Coordinated efforts to discard the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 79. Some States and NGOs have advocated purposeful boycotts of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and Durban review events. Boycotts occurred at the Durban Review Conference, the high-level event held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the document and the high -level event held in commemoration of its twentieth, with the number of States not participating increasing each time. Unfortunately, this has also included several States who had voiced support for the document at the Conference and had initially voted to endorse __________________ 94 95 96 20/26 For example, the Group of Independent Eminent Experts was represented at the meetings of other Durban mechanisms. See A/HRC/16/64, paras. 61–64; and A/HRC/4/39, para. 46. Submission on the international round table on people of African descent. Ibid. 21-15325