A/HRC/36/60
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11-29 September 2017
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of
African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth
sessions, prepared pursuant to Council resolutions 9/14, 18/28 and 27/25. During its
nineteenth session, held in Geneva from 28 November to 2 December 2016, the Working
Group held private discussions. Its twentieth session, held in Geneva from 3 to 7 April
2017, focused on the theme “Leaving no one behind: people of African descent and the
Sustainable Development Goals”. The Working Group concluded that the Sustainable
Development Goals provide a comprehensive framework to effectively combat the racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance that people of
African descent face every day around the world, and urged Member States to make a
genuine commitment to the standard of leaving no one behind by, inter alia, collecting
disaggregated data and devoting special attention to the human rights of people of African
descent through the preparation of specific programmes of action, including social
programmes for the implementation of the programme of activities for International Decade
for People of African Descent.
GE.17-12750(E)