A/RES/63/162 Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on 8 September 2001, 7 in particular paragraph 2 of the Declaration and paragraph 86 of the Programme of Action, 6F Recalling equally the study undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, 8 and taking note of his report, 9 7F 8F Alarmed, in this regard, at the spread in many parts of the world of various extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo-Nazis and skinhead groups, Reaffirms the provision of the Durban Declaration7 in which States 1. condemned the persistence and resurgence of neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism and violent nationalist ideologies based on racial and national prejudice and stated that those phenomena could never be justified in any instance or in any circumstances; Expresses deep concern about the glorification of the Nazi movement 2. and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and memorials and holding public demonstrations in the name of the glorification of the Nazi past, the Nazi movement and neo-Nazism, as well as by declaring or attempting to declare such members and those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition and collaborated with the Nazi movement as participants in national liberation movements; Expresses concern at recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish 3. monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and urges States in this regard to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; 10 9F Notes with concern the increase in the number of racist incidents in 4. several countries and the rise of skinhead groups, which have been responsible for many of these incidents, as well as the resurgence of racist and xenophobic violence targeting members of ethnic, religious or cultural communities and national minorities, as observed by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in his latest report;9 Reaffirms that such acts may be qualified to fall within the scope of 5. activities described in article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,3 and that they may represent a clear and manifest abuse of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association as well as the rights to freedom of opinion and expression within the meaning of those rights as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights2 and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Stresses that the practices described above do injustice to the memory of 6. the countless victims of crimes against humanity committed in the Second World War, in particular those committed by the SS organization and those who fought _______________ 7 See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I. E/CN.4/2006/16 and Add.1, Add.2 and Corr.1 and Add.3 and 4. 9 See A/63/339. 10 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512. 8 2