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Interlinkages between recognition, justice and development 2016, para. 69
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- The Working Group encourages development agencies and financial institutions to develop and implement programmes to address the human rights situation of people of African descent. The Working Group endorses, and recommends to development agencies and financial institutions for their serious consideration, the CARICOM Ten-Point Action Plan on reparations, including its points on public health initiatives, rehabilitation, technology transfer and debt cancellation.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Interlinkages between recognition, justice and development 2016, para. 60
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- The Working Group recognizes that some States have launched the International Decade and have taken steps to add chapters on African history and the transatlantic trade in Africans to primary-level textbooks. While the Working Group welcomes examples of good practices, there is a pressing need to intensify efforts in order to ensure that all States and regions are involved in the full implementation of the programme of activities of the International Decade for People of African Descent, including the provisions of General Assembly resolution 69/16 calling for the establishment of a forum and the drafting of a United Nations declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 44
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- The Working Group points out that, despite the publication of evidence, there is still insufficient attention paid to the proven contributions of people of African descent to world development. It concludes that the role that people of African descent have played in global development must be recognized both in terms of the contribution that the African continent has historically made to worldwide development, including during the transatlantic slave trade, and the contributions that Africans and the African diaspora have made and continue to make to the contemporary world.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 74
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- The Working Group urges States to develop public policies that do not keep people of African descent and African countries in a state of economic dependence but rather ensure that they benefit from development on an equal footing with the rest of the population and the developed countries, while at the same time respecting their sociocultural differences.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 53
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- Judicial and administrative enforcement of human rights and the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, is crucial in ensuring that the rights to health, housing, employment, education, participation in development and all other rights are enjoyed by people of African descent.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
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Development and people of African descent 2015, para. 45
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- In a period of economic and financial crisis, principles of participation, equality and non-discrimination should be integrated into all development activities where the realization of rights, including with respect to the fight against poverty and access to education, health, employment and political participation, are the goals of development. The Working Group also stresses that repairing the catastrophic damage done by enslavement and the slave trade would contribute to development.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 51
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- The Working Group regrets that, despite having gained independence, formerly colonized peoples are still living with the legacies of slavery and colonialism. The forced separation of Africans from their homeland has resulted in cultural and social alienation from their roots and identities. The cultural rupture caused by the transatlantic trade in Africans as well as by European colonization still has an impact on the discrimination faced by people of African descent in their search for justice.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82h
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- [States should also:] Ensure that people of African descent are provided with adequate means to undertake research to speak about themselves and their role and contribution to the development of society, including industrialization;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 49
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- The Working Group recognizes that the failure to provide appropriate education and training for youth of African descent often results in their aimlessness and unemployment and leaves them vulnerable to social and police profiling, consequently resulting in their overrepresentation in the criminal justice system.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 77
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- People of African descent and African organizations and communities should establish a network to facilitate trade and cultural exchange, and promote interaction and collaboration.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68h
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- [States should also:] Ensure that people of African descent are provided with adequate means to undertake research to speak about themselves and their role and contribution to the development of society, including industrialization;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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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. 113
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- The Working Group underlines the need for the criminalization of racism and racial discrimination, in accordance with article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Working Group concludes that the deleterious effects of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery can still be found in racist attitudes towards, and the conditions of existence of, people of African descent.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
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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. 121
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- The Working Group calls upon the United Nations to establish a special mechanism that would reopen the discussion on reparations for slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and study the adequate forms of such reparations.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
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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. 108
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- The Working Group reaffirms that the slave trade and slavery are crimes against humanity and should always have been so, especially the transatlantic slave trade (Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, paragraph 13). The Working Group recognizes that reparation for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery is a human rights issue that must be addressed adequately.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
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