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(10th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
(9th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(7th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(8th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(6th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(5th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(4th meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(3rd meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(1st meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(2nd meeting) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 35th session.
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2
The 35th session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from December 2 – 6, 2024. The session will focus on reparatory justice for Africans and people African descent.
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(Part 2) High level meeting to mark the closure of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) - General Assembly, 79th session.
As proclaimed by the General Assembly, the theme for the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) is "People of Africa
As proclaimed by the General Assembly, the theme for the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) is "People of African descent: recognition, justice and development."
Watch (Part 2) High level meeting to mark the closure of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) - General Assembly, 79th session!
(Part 1) High level meeting to mark the closure of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) - General Assembly, 79th session.
As proclaimed by the General Assembly, the theme for the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) is "People of Africa
As proclaimed by the General Assembly, the theme for the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) is "People of African descent: recognition, justice and development."
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Towards recognition, justice and development for people of African descent.
The world has made significant strides towards recognition, justice and development for people of African descent, yet the fact remains that women and girls face complex and intersecting challenges, spurred by racial discrimination and gender inequality – with deadly consequences.
As we mark the International Day for People of African Descent this year, we also mark the final year of the International Decade for People of African Descent, an initiative launched by the United Nations General Assembly to recognize people in the Americas who are of African descent as a distinct group whose human rights must be safeguarded.
To be sure, the past decade of activism has yielded some progress. Societies around the world are increasingly recognizing the role structural racism plays in driving social, economic and political inequalities; several countries have made racial profiling and discrimination illegal and have introduced policies to promote the rights and choices for people of African descent.
Further, governments have accelerated their efforts to make Afrodescendants more statistically visible in order to address historical injustices and to bridge gaps in access to health care, social services and opportunities. The number of countries with more inclusive population and housing censuses has also increased, with many including a question offering Afrodescendent self-identification, for example.
But crucial challenges remain for women and girls of African descent – including racist attitudes in health sectors across the Americas that make childbirth less safe and elevate the risk of preventable maternal death, according to UNFPA research. Another hurdle: Despite advances in inclusive data collection, countries continue to struggle to gather racially disaggregated statistics, which would reveal patterns of inequality and inform policies that could combat and eradicate racism.
Policymakers at all levels must work with Afrodescendent communities to conduct ethical research and create targeted, intersectional initiatives to erase inequality, improve health services and save lives. Increased, transnational solidarity and action, political will, and investments are also necessary in order to end inequalities and ensure the full empowerment of people of African descent, especially women and girls.
Around the world, UNFPA works to support women and girls of African descent in their pursuit of bodily autonomy, visibility and inclusion. As UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem has said, “Let us remember that when we improve the lives of Afrodescendant women and girls, the prospects of the entire community and nation will improve.”
PAHO Director calls for the promotion, protection and respect of their rights, including to health.
People of African descent are 2.5 times more likely to live in poverty and often face limited access to health services.
In commemoration of the International Day of People of African Descent, which takes place on August 31, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, calls on countries of the Americas to promote, protect, and respect the rights of people of African descent, including their right to health.
Approximately 210 million people of African descent live in the Americas, representing 20% of the population. However, the health needs of these groups are often neglected, leading to significant inequities.
A PAHO study published in 2021 on Afro-descendant populations in 18 Latin American countries showed that these groups live in extremely unequal social and economic conditions that affect their health. For example, people of African descent are 2.5 times more likely to live in poverty and often face limited access to health services and higher maternal and infant mortality rates.
"These inequities are rooted in historical exclusion, racism, and discrimination, which contribute to poor health outcomes and perpetuate the precarious living conditions of a significant portion of this population," the PAHO Director said in a video message to mark the International Day. "PAHO is committed to improving the health, health equity, and well-being of people of African descent in the Americas," he added.
PAHO's actions against racial health inequalities
To address these concerns, in 2017 PAHO Member States approved the first Policy on Ethnicity and Health, and in 2019 the Strategy and Plan of Action on Ethnicity and Health 2019-2025. Through their implementation, PAHO provides technical support to countries to reduce inequalities and eliminate barriers in access to health services for people of African descent. Recently, PAHO organized three subregional consultations on health equity with Afro-descendants and, together with the Government of Brazil, a regional event on ethnic and racial health inequalities.
The recommendations emerging from these meetings underscore the importance of generating evidence, exchanging good practices, adopting policies, empowering social participation, and recognizing ancestral knowledge to improve the health of this population group.
"On this Day, PAHO calls on its Member States to continue advancing the Strategy and Plan of Action on Ethnicity and Health," Dr. Barbosa said in his message. He reiterated the Organization's commitment "to promoting an intersectoral and intercultural approach with a human rights, gender, and social determinants of health focus to achieve equity and well-being for all peoples in the Americas."
The International Day of People of African Descent, observed on August 31, recognizes the contributions of the African diaspora worldwide, and seeks to eliminate all forms of discrimination against people of African descent and to protect their human rights, including the right to health.
UN Human Rights experts Joint statement on the International Day for People of African Descent 2024.
Ahead of the International Day for People of African Descent, a group of UN experts issue the following joint statement:
“On this day, we are reminded that millions of people of African descent around the world continue to be victims of systemic and structural racism and racial discrimination, in breach of the prohibition of racial discrimination as enshrined in the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and other international instruments. We condemn these human rights violations which defeat the aspirations of Ubuntu, or humanity, to which we all aspire.
With the Summit for the Future taking place in September, we are also reminded of the multipronged ecological crises facing humanity and the lack of global sustainable development, which especially affect Africans and people of African descent.
While some progress was made during the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024 to promote racial equality, we are far from ensuring respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of people of African descent, including eradication of all forms of discrimination against them. It is essential that the continuing global consequences of chattel enslavement, colonialism, apartheid and genocide be fully acknowledged and that efforts towards recognition, justice, and development for people of African descent be pursued vigorously beyond 2024. We have therefore called for a second International Decade 2025-2034.
We encourage States to contribute to collective efforts to advance the elaboration of the United Nations draft declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent, and ensure that it includes recognition and addresses systemic and structural racism, reparatory justice, environmental justice and digital equity.
The next International Decade requires an enhanced approach to the three pillars of the current International Decade: recognition, justice and development. This includes ensuring a greater recognition of systemic and structural racism and racial discrimination within and among countries, the pursuit of reparatory justice and greater efforts for the inclusion of people of African descent, and racial equality in all development frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.
During the next International Decade, States must also tackle emerging challenges pertaining to environmental justice and artificial intelligence for people of African descent. They must listen to, respect, and secure the perspectives of those impacted by compounding forms of discrimination, marginalisation and violence, including women, youth, LGBTQI+ persons, persons with disabilities, displaced persons, migrants and refugees. Member States should develop and effectively implement human rights instruments, strategies, indicators, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure comprehensive recognition and address systemic and structural racism within and among countries, and the effective promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent. This must be embedded in the implementation of the next International Decade at the national, regional, and international levels as well as in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the formulation of a post-2030 Agenda.
The time for decisive action is now. In the coming months, States will have the opportunity through the Summit of the Future and the COP16 meetings to consider issues that are also of critical importance to people of African descent. Let us seize these opportunities that can result in meaningful change for people of African descent and the whole of humanity.”
*The experts: Mr. Michał Balcerzak, Chairperson, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Mr. José Antonio Aguilar Contreras, Chairperson, Group of Independent Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; Ms. Ashwini K.P., Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; Ms. Akua Kuenyehia, Chairperson, International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement; Ms. Barbara Reynolds, Chairperson, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, and Ms. June Soomer, Chairperson, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
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7th meeting, 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
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3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is pleased to announce that the third session of the Permanent F
6th meeting, 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
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"The Second International Decade for People of African Descent: Addressing Systemic Racism, Reparatory Justice and Sustainable Development". 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
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