Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions 2017, para. 57
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The Working Group is convinced that there is a clear connection between poverty and structural racism. Discrimination can both cause poverty and be a hurdle in alleviating poverty. It is not a coincidence that in countries with a history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, enslavement and colonialism, the poorest population group is composed of racial or ethnic minorities.
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Working Group of experts on people of African descent