Durban Watch

The Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action was established by the Commission on Human Rights in its Resolution 2002/68.

It was mandated to:
(a) Make recommendations with a view to the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;
(b) Prepare complementary international standards to strengthen and update international instruments against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in all their aspects [task of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards since 2006].


Documents from the Eighth Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (October 11-22, 2010)

• Provisional Agenda
• Draft Programme of Work
• Opening Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 11, 2010
• Fourth Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Migration as of October 11, 2010
• Fifth Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Migration as of October 12, 2010
• Sixth Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Migration as of October 12, 2010
• Seventh Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Migration as of October 12, 2010

Documents from the Informal Consultations of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (September 1-2, 2010)

• Provisional Agenda
• Contributions from Japan
• Contributions from the European Union
• Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Protection of Children as of September 2, 2010
• Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Employment as of September 2, 2010
• Draft Conclusions and Recommendations on Migration as of September 2, 2010

Documents from the Human Rights Council

• Resolution on the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, June 18, 2009
• Resolution "From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance", June 18, 2010

Documents from the Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (October 5-16, 2009)

• Provisional Agenda
• Draft Programme of Work
• Information Note by the Secretariat (2008)
• Update Information Note of the Secretariat (2009)
• Opening Statement by Mona Rishmawi, Chief of the Rule of Law Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch, OHCHR
• Compilation of Conclusions and Recommendations adopted by IGWG (2002-2007)
• Revised Draft Programme of Work
• Second Revised Draft Programme of Work (Adopted on October 13)
• Presentation by the International Labor Organization Expert
• Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on the Implementation of the previous decisions of the IGWG
• Fourth Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on the Implementation of the previous decisions of the IGWG
• Fifth Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on the Implementation of the previous decisions of the IGWG (adopted on October 15, 2009)
• Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on the Effectiveness of the IGWG
• First Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on Protection of Children
• First Draft of Conclusions and Recommendations on Employment
• Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on its seventh session, February 17, 2010