E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.3 page 4 Annex REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE, MR. DOUDOU DIÈNE, ON HIS MISSION TO CÔTE D’IVOIRE FROM 9 TO 21 FEBRUARY 2004 CONTENTS Paragraphs Introduction ................................................................................................ Page 1-4 5 GENERAL OVERVIEW ................................................................... 5 - 21 6 A. Ethno-demographic data ............................................................... 5 6 B. Historical and political background .............................................. 6-8 6 C. Economic situation ....................................................................... 9 - 11 7 D. Human rights background ............................................................ 12 - 21 7 1. Legislative framework ............................................................ 12 - 16 7 2. Situation of human rights: observations and allegations ....... 17 - 21 8 ACTION BY THE GOVERNMENT ................................................. 22 - 27 9 A. The question of recognition of the existence of discrimination ... 22 9 B. Measures taken by the Government ............................................. 23 - 27 10 III. ALLEGATIONS ................................................................................ 28 - 36 11 IV. ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF ETHNIC FACTORS IN THE IVORIAN CRISIS ............................. 37 - 54 12 A. Manipulation of ethnic factors for political and ideological purposes .............................................................. 41 - 42 13 B. “Ivoirité”: ethnicity as ideology .................................................. 43 13 C. Political expressions of the dynamic of xenophobia .................... 44 - 50 14 D. Ethnic isolationism ....................................................................... 51 16 E. The conflation of ethnicity, culture and religion .......................... 52 - 54 16 V. RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................... 55 - 67 16 I. II.

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