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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2016, para. 44
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- The Working Group welcomes the 10-point plan of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) established by the Community's Reparations Commission in order to achieve reparatory justice for the region's indigenous and African descendant communities who are the victims of crimes against humanity.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 78
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- The International Decade for People of African Descent should be used to build bridges of understanding and reconnect the diaspora with the continent of Africa in order to address the feelings of loss, lack of identity and absence of indigenous knowledge that plague people of African descent in the diaspora.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 57
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- The Working Group suggests that all agencies of the United Nations system, as well as other international development and financial institutions, monitor the situation of people of African descent and report on their status and implement the Guidance note of the Secretary-General on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Thematic discussion on the situation of people of African descent in the context of the International Year for People of African Descent 2011 2011, para. 110
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- The Working Group underscores the importance of collecting disaggregated data to enable recognition of people of African descent as a minority and/or vulnerable group within societies, as appropriate. The Working Group also underlines the importance of recognizing the fact that people of African descent, where they consider themselves a minority group, should be covered by international instruments on minorities.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions 2017, para. 52
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- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its general recommendation No. 34 recalled that racism and structural discrimination against people of African descent, rooted in the infamous regime of slavery, are evident in the situations of inequality affecting them and reflected, inter alia, in the following domains: their grouping, together with indigenous peoples, among the poorest of the poor; their low rate of participation and representation in political and institutional decision-making processes; additional difficulties they face in access to and completion and quality of education, which results in the transmission of poverty from generation to generation; inequality in access to the labour market; limited social recognition and valuation of their ethnic and cultural diversity; and a disproportionate presence in prison populations.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Interlinkages between recognition, justice and development 2016, para. 54
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- Justice includes the totality of reparations, incorporating elements of restitution, compensation and satisfaction. In this light, the Ten-Point Action Plan CARICOM is seen by the Working Group as a creative way of weaving together different elements of reparatory justice. Apology, repatriation, indigenous people's development, cultural institutions such as museums and research centres, public health initiatives, literacy, African knowledge programmes, technology transfer and debt cancellation, are among the points raised in this action plan.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 67
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- States should implement special measures to ensure people of African descent have access to necessary housing services, by involving communities of people of African descent as partners in housing project construction, rehabilitation and maintenance and taking measures to ensure legal security of tenure, availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure, affordability, habitability, accessibility, location and cultural adequacy, and prevent the forced eviction of people of African descent from their homes in both urban and rural contexts. The Working Group also urges States, in accordance with international human rights standards and their respective domestic legal frameworks, to resolve problems of ownership of ancestral lands, inhabited for generations by indigenous people and by people of African descent and illegally expropriated by colonial rulers.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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