E/CN.4/2005/85 page 22 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.

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