E/CN.4/1995/78 page 14 G. Switzerland Bülach, October 1994 67. There were arson attacks on two asylum shelters. The fires were extinguished with the efforts of the residents of the shelters themselves. There are allegations that the fires were started by racists. H. Swaziland 68. In its communication, the Government of Swaziland informed the Special Rapporteur that certain trade unions in the country complain of racial discrimination within the workplace. It is often alleged that certain Europeans/whites ill-treat black workers. At certain workplaces whites have better benefits than blacks. On localizing the post, such benefits are cut drastically, i.e. the salary is cut by half. III. MEASURES TAKEN BY GOVERNMENTS 69. In addition to the 30 Governments already mentioned in the report to the General Assembly (A/49/677, para. 41), the Special Rapporteur has received information from the Governments of the following countries: Germany, Australia, Austria, Colombia, France, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Swaziland. This information is reproduced or analysed in the following sections. A. Germany 70. Because of the limited time and space available, the Special Rapporteur was previously unable to give an appropriate account of the measures taken by the Government of Germany to prevent and punish racist and xenophobic violence in its territory. He therefore proposes to do so in the following paragraphs. 71. It can be seen from the communication of the Government of Germany that the highest German authorities, including the President of the Republic, Richard von Weizsäcker, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl have expressly condemned all acts of xenophobic violence, and that the Government has taken drastic measures to curb the actions of the extreme right. In the interests of more efficient cooperation between the various services engaged in the struggle against rightist extremism (the police, the judiciary, and the services for the protection of the Constitution), the Ministers of the Interior of the Länder and of the Federation decided, in late 1992, to set up an "information group to monitor and combat right-wing extremist, terrorist, and particularly xenophobic acts of violence" (IGR). This group is composed of representatives of the Procurator-General of the Federal Court of Justice, the Federal Office of Criminal Police and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, as well as representatives of the judiciary, the police and the services for the protection of the Constitution of the Länder. The IGR is responsible for devising and implementing - using all legal means at its disposal - enforcement measures targeted at the federal level, defining priorities, consolidating information collected by the various administrations and concentrating its action on certain areas of right-wing extremism and terrorism.