A/HRC/33/61 B. Election of the Chair-Rapporteur 6. Ricardo A. Sunga III was elected Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group. 7. Ms. Fanon Mendes-France, in her statement as the outgoing Chair-Rapporteur, thanked the other members of the Working Group and the other meeting participants for their support and added that the Working Group would continue to strive to strengthen the mandate that had been entrusted to it. She highlighted the challenges faced in combating racism as a result of, inter alia, policies that had, in one way or another, contributed to the institutionalized invisibility and structural racism faced by people of African descent on a daily basis in all aspects of their lives. She urged the Working Group to systematically use the term “Afrophobia” to describe that particular form of racism. Emphasizing the importance of the first International Decade for People of African Descent, she expressed regret that the forum for people of African descent had yet to be established and that there had not been any discussion of the drafting of a United Nations declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent, even though the International Decade was already in its second year. She urged States to fully implement General Assembly resolution 69/16, on the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade. 8. Accepting his new role as Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group, Mr. Sunga thanked the other experts for his election and the participants for their support. 9. The representatives of Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Italy, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), along with the European Union, expressed appreciation to Ms. Fanon Mendes-France for her work during her tenure as Chair-Rapporteur and congratulated Mr. Sunga on his appointment as the new ChairRapporteur. C. Organization of work 10. The Working Group adopted the agenda (A/HRC/WG.14/18/1 and Corr.1) and programme of work. III. Update and briefings on activities undertaken by the Working Group in the past year 11. Under item 5 of the agenda, Mr. Sunga informed participants that the Working Group had submitted its annual report on its fifteenth and sixteenth sessions to the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session. During that session the Working Group had also presented the reports on its country visits to the Netherlands and Sweden and had engaged in a constructive dialogue with Member States. The Working Group had also submitted its annual report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session and had participated in an interactive dialogue with the Third Committee on 2 November 2015. 12. Mr. Sunga also briefed the participants of the eighteenth session on the seventeenth session of the Working Group, an internal meeting at which members had reviewed the Working Group’s methods of work, prepared for its upcoming session, communications and country visits, and held meetings with various stakeholders and representatives of various OHCHR units. The Working Group had decided to liaise more intensively with financial and developmental institutions during the following year in order to effectively implement the relevant parts of its mandate. 4