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].

Next session of the Intergovernmental Working Group is scheduled for October 17 - 28, 2011.


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)

Editor's Note: In June 2010 the Human Rights Council decided to "commemorate" the tenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) at its seventeenth session and to "dedicate two working days of the eighth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group to prepare for the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action."
The DDPA, which was was adopted in 2001 after Israel and the United States walked out of the conference, singles out only Israel and charges it with racism.

• Provisional Agenda
• Draft Programme of Work
• Opening Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, October 11, 2010
• Proposed Elements for the Resolution on the 10th Anniversary of the DDPA (submitted by Nigeria on behalf of the African Group), October 14, 2010
• First draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 15, 2010
• Second draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 15, 2010
• Third draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 15, 2010
• Fourth draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 20, 2010
• Fifth draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 20, 2010
• Seventh draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), October 22, 2010 [adopted with editorial changes]
• Eighth (final) draft of conclusions and recommendations (including Item 7: The 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), as adopted on October 22, 2010