A/HRC/41/54 I. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Country visits 1. The Special Rapporteur would like to thank the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Morocco for their invitations and the cooperation extended to her during her official country visits, which she conducted in 2018. She also wishes to thank the Governments of the Netherlands and Qatar for inviting her to conduct visits in the second half of 2019, and Brazil and Poland for accepting her country visit requests. She looks forward to the cooperation of Brazil and Poland in scheduling these visits for 2020. She urges Member States to respond positively to her outstanding requests. B. Other activities 2. The activities of the Special Rapporteur between April and July 2018 are reflected in her report to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session (A/73/305). Between July 2018 and April 2019, the Special Rapporteur participated in various international conferences and filed a number of amicus curiae briefs elaborating the principles and obligations of racial equality and non-discrimination within the international human rights framework. At the multilateral level, she was invited to be a panellist at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in 2018 and, on 25 March 2019, she was a keynote speaker at the commemorative plenary meeting held by the General Assembly in New York to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 3. In October 2018, the Special Rapporteur held two consultations on the margins of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly and participated in various meetings, including a meeting of the Groups of Friends on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 4. In response to her call for submissions to the present report, the Special Rapporteur received 22 submissions. She would like to mention the high quality of the submissions she received. II. Racial equality and the global extractivism economy 5. The fundamental inequalities that characterize the global political economy are also present in the extractivism economy. Powerful States and their transnational corporations, and the political elites of weaker States that are territories of extraction, emerge as the clear winners. The populations of these territories of extraction bear the brunt of the extractivism economy, too often paying with their very lives. The purpose of the present report is to explain why the obligations concerning racial equality and non-discrimination enshrined in the international human rights framework must be central to reform, regulation and evaluation of the extractivism economy. The report also serves to explain why sovereign equality, the right to self-determination of peoples and the right to development are fundamental in achieving racial equality and non-discrimination, and must be understood as such in the elaboration of human rights standards and practices relating to all aspects of the extractivism economy. 6. In the report, the term “extractivism economy” refers to the industries, actors and financial flows, as well as to the economic, material and social processes and outputs, associated with the globalized extraction of natural resources. The extractivism economy includes mineral and fossil fuel extraction, and monocultural large-scale agricultural, forestry and fishery operations. The terms of this economy are set by a range of actors, the most influential of which include States, national and transnational corporations and their shareholders, international financial and development institutions, and multilateral governance bodies and institutions. Although possessing lesser influence than those 2