The fiasco of the 2001 Durban conference against racism is set to extend into Durban II slated for next year in Geneva. Two weeks ago the current mayor of Durban asked the UN Rights chief Navi Pillay to “rescue” the city's name from the now discredited UN ant-racism conference. UN Watch is calling on certain offending provisions to be removed from Durban II. Durban II will be headed by Libya and Iran.
In August the Durban Review Conference in Abuja, Nigeria outlined Durban II's agenda and issued several reports. A paragraph in one of those reports “…calls upon states to avoid inflexibly clinging to free speech in defiance of the sensitivities existing in a society and with absolute disregard for religious feelings.”
