A/HRC/51/54
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 August 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-first session
12 September–7 October 2022
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation
of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Children of African descent
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent*, **
Summary
The present document contains the report of the Working Group of Experts on People
of African Descent on its twenty-ninth and thirtieth sessions, prepared pursuant to Human
Rights Council resolutions 9/14, 18/28, 27/25, 36/23 and 45/24.
During its twenty-ninth session, held in Geneva from 15 to 19 November 2021, the
Working Group held private discussions. At its thirtieth session, held in New York from 23
to 27 May 2022, the Working Group focused on the theme “Children of African descent”.
The Working Group concluded that racial discrimination continued to harm children
of African descent. It discussed racial discrimination and inequality faced by children of
African descent in all areas of life, including administration of justice, law enforcement,
education, health, family-regulation systems, and development, as well as redress for
legacies of enslavement, colonialism and racial segregation. In the present report, the
Working Group makes a number of recommendations, among others, calling upon States to
recognize the importance and ensure the promotion and protection of the human rights of
children of African descent, including in the draft United Nations declaration on the
promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent.
* Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to
circumstances beyond the submitter’s control.
** The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only.
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