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these evils. The Special Rapporteur already made a number of specific
recommendations on this matter in earlier reports. He takes this opportunity
to reiterate them and once more urges that they be properly implemented.
134. However, the Special Rapporteur wishes once again, as he did in his last
report to the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/1997/71), to repeat the
following recommendations:
(a)
To convene as soon as possible a world conference on racism,
racial discrimination and xenophobia and to include the question of
immigration and xenophobia in its agenda and, to that end, to organize, in
cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNESCO
or regional organizations or foundations and universities, meetings of experts
at the subregional and subsequently regional levels to study the problem in
depth on each continent;
(b)
To envisage the possibility of action at the international level
by immediately beginning studies, research and consultations on the use of the
Internet for purposes of incitement to hatred, racist propaganda and
xenophobia, and to draw up a programme of human rights education and exchanges
over the Internet on experience in the struggle against racism, xenophobia and
anti-Semitism;
(c)
To request States which have not already done so to ratify the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination and the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families;
(d)
To request States which do not yet have such institutions to
establish human rights committees with responsibility in particular for
studying the question of racism and racial discrimination and for securing
adoption of appropriate measures;
(e)
To request countries he has visited to keep him regularly informed
of the steps they have taken to follow up on his field mission.
Notes
1/
Jeune Afrique No. 1916, 24-30 September 1997.
European Commission press release No. 43/97, Brussels,
2/
19 March 1997.
3/
Agence France Presse, 22 October 1997.
4/
Agence France Presse, 14 August 1997.
5/
Op. cit., (note 3).
Roma Rights (The Newsletter of the European Roma Rights Center),
6/
spring 1997.