Programme of Work (4th session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards) Adopted on 10 April 2012
Monday 9.04 UN Holiday 10:00 ­ 13:00 UN Holiday 15:00 ­ 18:00 Tuesday 10.04 Item 1 Opening of the Session Item 2 Election of the Chair Item 3 Adoption of the Agenda and Programme of Work Item 4a Xenophobia [Nozipho January-Bardill, South Africa] 1st week Wednesday 11.04 Xenophobia [Patrick Thornberry, CERD] Thursday 12.04 Xenophobia [Duncan Breen, Human Rights First] Friday 13.04 Xenophobia [Miguel Hilario, UNICEF] --General discussion and exchange of views on xenophobia

Xenophobia [Orest Nowosad, Special Procedures Branch, OHCHR]

Xenophobia [Fanny Dufvenmark; Christine Aghazarm, IOM]

Item 4b Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance [Vladlen Stefanov, OHCHR National Institutions Section; Zanofer Ismalebbe, UNDP Geneva]

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week Wednesday 18.04 Item 4c Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [Alexei Aftonomov, CERD] Thursday 19.04 Informal Consultations /Compilation of the Report Friday 20.04 Item 5 Chair's Conclusions and Recommendations

Monday 16.04 Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance [Patrick Charlier, Centre pour l'égalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme en Belgique: Michel Forst, French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights] Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance [Jozef De Witte, EQUINET European Network of Equality Bodies]

Tuesday 17.04 Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance [Ricardo BucioMujica, President of the National Commission against Discrimination of Mexico] Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance [Andre Castella, Office for Integration of Foreigners, Geneva Canton]

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10:00 ­ 13:00 15:00 ­ 18:00

General discussion and exchange of views on the establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect against and prevent all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance --General discussion and exchange of views on ICERD procedural gaps

Informal Consultations /Compilation of the Report

Item 6 Adoption of the report of the 4th session

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