A/HRC/7/19 page 21 education, scientific research and information - ideas, concepts and images likely to incite or legitimize racism, racial discrimination or xenophobia. 78. The Human Rights Council is invited to encourage member States to adopt an approach to questions relating to immigration, asylum and the situation of foreigners and national minorities that is based on international law and instruments such as the Covenants and the Durban Programme of Action, which attach priority to respect for their rights. 79. The Human Rights Council is invited to stress the seriousness of racist and xenophobic manifestations and practices at points of entry to countries, reception areas and waiting areas. It is essential that such areas should not become “no-rights zones” for non-citizens in general and for immigrants and asylum-seekers in particular. 80. In order to combat the resurgence of racism and xenophobia and the association of racial, cultural and religious factors, the Special Rapporteur reiterates his recommendation on the need to assess manifestations of racism and xenophobia accurately and to establish, to this end, within OHCHR, a permanent centre for monitoring racist phenomena, which would submit an annual report to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly at the same time as the general report and progress report of the Special Rapporteur. 81. The Special Rapporteur suggests that his general report and recommendations be included in the documentation submitted to all bodies involved in the Durban World Conference review process, and his reports on countries visited included in documentation submitted to the regional meetings held as part of this process. 82. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Human Rights Council draw the attention of member States to the seriousness and depth of the resurgence of manifestations of racism and xenophobia, both old and new. The combination of the processes of multiculturalization and globalization means that no society is immune from these phenomena, which today constitute one of the most serious threats to democracy and the coexistence of all societies. A vigorous and consensual response from the international community is therefore urgently needed. 83. In this context, the Council is invited to emphasize that the Durban Programme of Action constitutes the most detailed response to these phenomena to date. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the Durban review process should provide the opportunity for the international community to express its political commitment to assess these phenomena, and not only formulate political, legal and cultural measures to supplement the Durban Programme of Action in all the areas in which differences were expressed following the World Conference, but also to propose ways and means of implementing a programme that is revised to take account of the seriousness of the situation. Apart from demonstrating a lack of political will to confront these phenomena, a failure of the World Conference review process would, above all, pave the way for intensification of the worrying trends mentioned in the present report, namely, the upsurge in racist violence, the political use of racism and its intellectual legitimization. -----