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5
Held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001 (A/CONF.189/12,
chap. I).
6
In its annual report on racism and xenophobia, the European Monitoring Centre for Racism
and Xenophobia reckons in their thousands the number of incidents of racially-motivated attacks
and violence during 2003 in EU member States. See Racism and Xenophobia in the EU Member
States: trends, developments and good practice, EUMC, Annual Report 2003/2004, Part 2,
pp. 48-67. The report may be consulted at http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/material/pub/ar03/
AR0304p2-EN.pdf.
7
See the statistical data provided in E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.1.
8
For the integration system applied in the Netherlands, see Advisory Committee on Aliens
Affairs, “Van Contourennota naar Inburgeringswet. Juridische Mogelijkheden tot een meer
verplichtend inburgeringsstelsel” (“Advice on a revision of the Dutch integration structure”).
This document may be consulted at www.acvz.com.
9
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
10
The General Assembly, in its resolutions 54/210, of 22 December 1999, and 58/206,
of 23 December 2003, requested the Secretary-General to update the World Survey on the Role
of Women in Development for consideration at its fifty-ninth session. The survey focuses on
selected emerging development issues that have an impact on the role of women in the economy
at the national, regional and international levels.
11
E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.1 contains statistics on communications concerning women transmitted
by the Special Rapporteur since 1999.
12
See E/CN.4/2004/76/Add.2, para. 74, on the Special Rapporteur’s visit to Spain.
13
See E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.3, on the Special Rapporteur’s visit to Italy.
14
In this connection, see Committee on the Rights of the Child, general comment No. 4 (2003),
on Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC/GC/2003/4). Under article 24, paragraph 3, of the Convention, “States Parties shall
take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices
prejudicial to the health of children.”
15
See the chapter on Kosovo in E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.1; and Adds. 3 and 4 to this report, on the
visits to Italy and Peru, respectively.
16
See, for example, A/58/275, section IV, “Good practices observed by the Special Rapporteur:
Prevention of irregular migration and combating trafficking” (paras. 53-59). See also
E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.3, on the Special Rapporteur’s visit to Italy.