Resolution on Discrimination, Xenophobia and other related Intolerances on its Agenda

We, the participants of the NGO Forum preceding the 41st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the 15th African Human Rights Book Fair, held at the Coconut Grove Hotel, Accra, from 12 – 14 May 2007,

We hereby request the African Commission on Human and people’s Rights:

1. To restore the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and other related Intolerance on its agenda,
2. To coordinate the processes and activities leading to the review conference, so as to properly articulate African provisions that will produce a global African Agenda before the review conference in 2009
3. To urge member states to urgently establish national research committees and plan of action on the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, so as to work towards providing afro-centric solutions to the problems,

Further urge the Commission to do the following:

4. To urge member states to promulgate national laws for the promotion of equality and prevention of unfair discrimination,
5. To also recommend the AU to reconvene the Council of Ministers to review the 2001 Dakar Declaration of the Council, and make recommendations to review the conference,
6. To urge the AU to re-establish the group of Eminent Persons and Reparations established in 1992 by the OAU,
7. To further urge the AU Member sates to provide support and logistics for the Eminent Persons Group when it is constituted.

Done in Accra, 14 May 2007