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Confirms the significant tendencies identified in the previous reports, such as the normalization of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia for political ends, the penetration of the racist political platforms of extreme right-wing parties and movements in the political programmes of democratic parties and the growing intellectual legitimization of these platforms.

Le racisme anti-noir est sans doute le plus quotidiennement vécu en Europe et dans le monde. Il présente néanmoins leparadoxe d'être très peu connu, rarement nommé, peu sujet à une reconnaissance. Son sort reste égal à celui des personnes qui en sont la cible : marqué à la fois par la visibilité et l'invisibilité, le silence qui entoure ses manifestations et la profonde résonance historique de la douleur de ses victimes.

Sur les rivages et dans les terres du Ghana et du Sénégal, dans les plantations et les forêts de Guadeloupe, Guyane, Haïti, Martinique et La Réunion, sur les quais et dans les rues de Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, jusqu'au Fort de Joux dans le Doubs, Philippe Monges a photographié les lieux liés à l'histoire de la traite négrière et de l'esclavage colonial. Il s'est confronté aux architectures bourgeoises, coloniales et militaires, a interrogé les paysages de la résistance et du marronnage, et a composé, traces sur traces, une série photographique de ces lieux de pouvoir, de servitude et de liberté. Mémoire des lieux.

"The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance visited Brazil from 17 to 26 October 2005 ... to assess the situation of racial discrimination in Brazil and the policies adopted by the Government to combat such discrimination since his last visit (see E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.1). The Special Rapporteur concluded that racial discrimination is deeply rooted in Brazil and has influenced the structure of the entire society for the last five centuries. This discrimination principally affects the autochthonous Amerindian community and the population of African descent, but also certain migrant workers, refugees and asylum-seekers from South American and Caribbean countries. The profound structural nature of racism and racial discrimination is illustrated by the identity of political, social and economic marginalization with the map of the human and cultural specificities of these communities. More profoundly racism touches on the issue of cultural identity manifested in the contradiction between, on one side, the "folklorization" and "instrumentalization" of the culture and religions of these communities as a means of hiding the reality of racism and discrimination and on the other, the lack of representation of these communities in the media and the structures and places of power."--Summary.

Informs that in the light of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/6 and General Assembly resolution 58/160, remarks made by the Secretary-General at seminars on anti-Semitism and on defamation of religions held in 2004, the Durban Declaration and relevant recommendations in previous reports, the Special Rapporteur has decided to examine more closely the question of defamation of religions and, in particular, anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia, and to submit a report on this question to the Commission on Human Rights at its 61st session (E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.4).