A/59/329 V. Conclusions and recommendations 45. The Special Rapporteur will submit to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-first session detailed recommendations on the issues covered by his mandate, particularly in the light of his visits. He therefore wishes to draw the attention of the General Assembly to the following: • When contemplating future measures against racism, discrimination and xenophobia, the General Assembly is invited to consider the complicating factor that contemporary forms of racism conflate religion and culture with ethnicity or race; • The General Assembly is invited to take into account and alert Member States to the growing importance of the intellectual front in the fight against racism, discrimination and xenophobia and the need to devise an intellectual strategy for combating those phenomena in the domain of ideas, concepts, images, perceptions and value systems; • In the light of the “RER C train” incident in France, the General Assembly should speak out against the exploitation of the fight against all forms of racism as a political, media and intellectual tool, and in favour of a set of ethics for that fight based on the values of universality, equality and objectivity; • The General Assembly is invited to alert the Member States to the need to take the necessary legislative and judicial action, as well as measures in the area of information and education, in order to ensure that the legitimate struggle against terrorism does not result in or breed new forms of discrimination targeting specific populations, religions, cultures or ethnic groups; • In the context of implementing the Programme of Action of the Durban Conference, the General Assembly is invited to focus its attention on the latest forms of discrimination, which affect, in particular, immigrants, refugees and non-citizens and make them particularly vulnerable; • The General Assembly is invited to draw the attention of Member States to the resurgence of xenophobia and to the fact that, while anchoring human rights in legal instruments is a fundamental way of expressing their universality, it is no longer capable of eliminating the underlying causes of discriminatory culture and mentalities. Action on human rights must henceforth include discussion of the deep cultural roots of racism; • The General Assembly is invited both to draw the attention of all Member States to increased racism in sports and to call on international sports entities to take appropriate measures to eradicate it and cooperate to that end with the relevant human rights mechanisms, in particular the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Special Rapporteur; • Finally, the General Assembly is invited to alert all Member States to the need to adopt measures to counter the dissemination of discriminatory, racist and xenophobic messages on the Internet, in accordance with paragraphs 144 to 147 of the Durban Programme of Action. 20

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