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information in its next periodic report on plans of action and other measures adopted to
implement the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action at the national level.
Dialogue with civil society
23.
The Committee recommends that the State party continue to intensify its dialogue
with civil society organizations working in the area of human rights protection, particularly
those involved in combating racial discrimination, and that it consult them when it prepares
the next periodic report.
Amendments to article 8 of the Convention
24.
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the amendments to paragraph
6 of article 8 of the Convention that were adopted on 15 January 1992, at the Fourteenth
Meeting of the States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, and approved by the General Assembly in resolution
47/111. In this connection, the Committee refers to resolutions 61/148, 63/243 and 65/200,
in which the General Assembly strongly urges States parties to the Convention to accelerate
their domestic ratification procedures with regard to the amendment to the Convention
concerning the financing of the Committee and to notify the Secretary-General
expeditiously in writing of their agreement to the amendment.
Dissemination
25.
The Committee recommends that the State party make its periodic reports easily
accessible to the public at the time of their submission and disseminate the Committee’s
concluding observations on those reports in the official language of the State and other
commonly used languages.
Common core document
26.
The Committee encourages the State party to regularly update the core document
(HRI/CORE/Add.127) submitted in 2003 in line with the harmonized guidelines on
reporting under the international human rights treaties, including guidelines on a common
core document, as adopted at the fifth annual meeting of the chairpersons of the human
rights treaty bodies held in June 2006 (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6, chap. I).
Follow-up on concluding observations
27.
In conformity with paragraph 1 of article 9 of the Convention and rule 65 of the
Committee’s revised rules of procedure, the Committee requests the State party to inform it
within one year of the adoption of the present concluding observations of the measures
taken to follow up on the recommendations set forth in paragraphs 12, 16 and 20 above.
Paragraphs of particular importance
28.
The Committee also wishes to draw the State party’s attention to the particular
importance of the recommendations in paragraphs 15, 17 and 18 and requests that the State
party include detailed information in its next periodic report on the specific steps taken to
implement those recommendations.
Preparation of the next report
29.
The Committee recommends that the State party submit its twentieth and twentyfirst periodic reports, in a single document, by 15 March 2015, taking due account of the
guidelines on the Convention-specific document that were adopted by the Committee at its
seventy-first session (CERD/C/2007/1), and that it respond to all the points raised in the
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