E/CN.4/1999/15 page 34 (b) It draws attention to the urgent need for concerted international action to combat racist propaganda and racial hatred disseminated over the Internet; (c) It states that it is prepared to take part in the organization of a European regional meeting in preparation for the World Conference and to make recommendations. E. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 140. The legislation against racial discrimination was extended to Northern Ireland by the proclamation of Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997; racial discrimination in employment, training, education, housing and provision of goods and services is now prohibited in Northern Ireland. 141. Continuing efforts are being made to recruit Blacks and Asians into the police, following allegations of institutional racism in the London and Manchester police forces. 11 The Special Rapporteur hopes to receive more information from the British Government on the results of several initiatives taken by the Home Secretary in this connection. VI. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 142. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the effective measures taken by the Governments which replied to his request. He encourages them to complete the work they have begun. He hopes that Governments which have not yet done so will send him their comments to enable him to assess the extent to which his mandate has been fulfilled, in anticipation of the World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. 143. The Special Rapporteur is somewhat concerned, but not discouraged, to note the persistence in several regions of the world of subtle or violent forms of racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. He deeply regrets the rise in neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, the continuing use of Internet for spreading racist ideologies, the rise in ethnonationalism, the continuing discrimination against the Gypsies or travellers and the manifestations of anti-Semitism. 144. For this reason, to be held in 2001, he establish flexible and conference is prepared in view of the forthcoming World Conference on Racism, recommends that the Office of the High Commissioner functional bodies and mechanisms in order to ensure the for in a methodical and scientific manner: (a) By organizing regional meetings of experts to assess work on the question by reviewing the studies made (the reports of the Special Rapporteur and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will be of use in this context) and undertaking new ones on specific topics and contemporary situations; (b) By involving the United Nations specialized agencies and the regional, subregional and non-governmental organizations in the preparatory process;