UNITED NATIONS E Economic and Social Council Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/1997/71 16 January 1997 ENGLISH Original: ENGLISH/FRENCH/ SPANISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-third session Item 13 of the provisional agenda IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE SECOND DECADE TO COMBAT RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Report by Mr. Maurice Glélé-Ahanhanzo, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/21 CONTENTS Paragraphs Introduction I. 1 - 8 3 . . . . 9 - 16 4 Participation in the fifty-first session of the General Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 - 11 4 Missions to the field and sundry observations . . 12 - 16 4 CONTEMPORARY MANIFESTATIONS OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND XENOPHOBIA . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 - 34 5 Contributions by Governments and public bodies to action to combat racism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 - 19 6 The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism in Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 - 21 9 Discrimination against Blacks, negrophobia 22 - 23 10 ACTIVITIES OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR IN 1996 A. B. II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page A. B. C. GE.97-10189 (E) . . .

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