expense of family, society, state, other legally recognised communities’ and international community’s interests. Individual rights are to be enjoyed with due regard to the rights of others, collective security, morality and common interest. Activities in curbing personal and private interests for the benefit of the interests protected by the article. Article 28 6. Everyone shall abstain from discrimination against fellow human beings and shall maintain relations conducive to promoting, safeguarding and reinforcing mutual respect and tolerance. Article 29 7. Every individual shall observe the duties enunciated in the article. A full report on each of the duties should be provided. Initial Report 8. On each of these duties the reporting state should furnish the principal statutes and administrative regulations and, where applicable, courts’ decisions establishing the atmosphere for enforcement and effectuation of these duties. Periodic Reports 9. Some of these valuable traditional duties might have been treated lightly in some African countries because of the overwhelming Western influence in the past colonial days; it might therefore become necessary to establish programmes for carrying out these duties. The Commission would expect periodic reports on the progress on these programmes. V. GENERAL GUIDELINES CONCERNING THE FORM AND CONTENTS OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION      Although there is no specific or direct prohibition of racial discrimination, as such, in the Charter except as mentioned in articles 2, 19 and generally elsewhere in the Charter, the general tone of the Charter abhors racial discrimination. Further, Africa, for so long the victim of racial discrimination, would expect the Commission and the States Parties to the Charter to work for elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. It was therefore decided that the subject of racial discrimination should be included as a subject for periodic reports in full recognition of the Charter of the Organization of African Unity’s commitment to elimination of racial discrimination. The same basic approach to the subject in preparing reports on other topics is equally applicable to the one on racial discrimination; the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is here used as the basis for preparing these guidelines. In selecting information for inclusion in their reports, States Parties should bear in mind the definition of the term ‘racial discrimination’ as reflected in article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention, as well as the provisions of article 1, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4, which refer to situations not considered as racial discrimination. The report should also reflect in all its parts the actual situation as regards the practical implementation of the provisions of the Convention and the progress achieved. The report should be presented in two parts, as follows: 18