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Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions 2017, para. 72
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- The Working Group urges Member States to allocate additional investments to the health-care and education systems of people of African descent and to promote equal opportunities in employment, as well as other positive measures and strategies within the human rights framework.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Interlinkages between recognition, justice and development 2016, para. 71
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- States are called upon to promote full and accurate inclusion of the general history of Africa and to recognize in educational curricula the important contribution 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)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 60t
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- [In order to provide equal access to justice for people of African descent and as a part of the duty of States to protect human rights, the Working Group calls upon States to guarantee that:] The rights of children and youth of African descent are specifically protected with regard to their identity, culture and language, particularly by promoting culturally and linguistically sensitive education policies and programmes. Measures should be adopted to combat the indirect discrimination faced by children in education systems by removing the negative stereotypes and imagery often used in teaching materials, ensuring the inclusion in curricula of the histories and cultures of people of African descent, and the history of the transatlantic slave trade, and ensuring the cultural or linguistic relevance of teaching for children of African descent. Formal education at the early childhood, primary, secondary, post-secondary and adult levels must incorporate knowledge about the history of transatlantic slavery, the role of people of African descent in global development, and the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures which constitute the common heritage of humankind. Comprehensive curricula reform should also tackle all forms of stereotypes;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 60f
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- [In order to provide equal access to justice for people of African descent and as a part of the duty of States to protect human rights, the Working Group calls upon States to guarantee that:] Appropriate education and training are provided for youth of African descent in order to prevent unemployment, social stigmatization, police profiling and brutality;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 53
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- The Working Group notes that education that is culturally appropriate and history education that is not only linked to slavery but includes Africa before the transatlantic slave trade are forms of social justice for people of African descent.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 48
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- The Working Group notes that the failure to provide good quality education and appropriate professional orientation for people of African descent is an obstacle to their accessing positions in the judiciary and administrative institutions at the highest levels.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 86
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- Schools should adopt programmes to promote empowerment and help children to develop a positive perception of themselves and reinforce self assurance and pride in their African backgrounds by demonstrating knowledge about their culture, history and contributions to society. Such measures will also improve their performance in schools.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82o
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- [States should also:] Guarantee a smooth transition from early childhood to primary and secondary educational facilities without discriminatory competitive placement systems (for example, common entrance examinations);
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82n
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- [States should also:] Promote access to new technologies that would offer people of African descent, particularly women, children and young people, adequate resources for education, technological development and long-distance learning in local communities;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82k
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- [States should also:] Ensure that curriculums adequately reflect the diversity and plurality of societies. Education should be culturally relevant for children and young people of African descent, including in their own language where necessary;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82j
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- [States should also:] Promote a collective vision and strategy for improving the conditions of people of African descent by empowering them through the right to education. In this context, a database on information pertaining to the status of education of people of African descent should be developed;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82f
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- [States should also:] Make history a compulsory subject at the primary and secondary educational levels, thereby giving children of African descent a connection with their past and a sense of cultural identity;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82d
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- [States should also:] Take into account the cultural and ethnic diversity of the communities served when selecting teachers. The teaching profession should include highly qualified teachers of people of African descent;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82c
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- [States should also:] Institute a compulsory human rights teacher-training programme at the national level, covering, among other areas, multiculturalism, equality, non discrimination and gender sensitivity at a national level;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82a
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- [States should also:] Ensure accessible and available education, in particular in areas where people of African descent live, including in rural and marginalized communities, paying attention to improving the quality of public education;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 81
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- Every person is entitled to accessible, free and high-quality primary-level education. States should take reasonable legislative and other measures to achieve the progressive realization of this right by people of African descent with respect to secondary education and for higher education on the basis of capacity.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 80
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- States should fully protect the right of people of African descent to education, and must go beyond issues of physical or economic accessibility, to focus on the ultimate goal of equal access to quality education at all levels and equal achievement outcomes.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 60
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- Young people of African descent should benefit, including, when appropriate, through the provision of special measures, from access to quality education and appropriate professional orientation in order to have access to positions in the judiciary and administrative institutions at the highest levels.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 83
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- Civil society and people of African descent groups should continue with the development of a collective vision and strategy for improving the access to quality education for people of African descent by empowering them through the right to education.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82s
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- [States should also:] Institute national systematic monitoring and evaluation of the negative effects of racism and discrimination on the educational progress of children of African descent, including an analysis of the intersectional effects of social class, gender, religion and geography.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82p
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- [States should also:] Provide sufficient budgetary resources and adopt measures, including affirmative action policies, at all levels of education for people of African descent, as a means for Governments to recognize the existence of structural discrimination and to combat it;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 73
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- Through intercultural education, dialogue and awareness-raising measures help the elimination of sociocultural ideas inherited from the period of slavery and colonialism.
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 70
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- OHCHR should include in its anti-racial discrimination database information on existing legislation, policies and programmes for the promotion of equal access to education by people of African descent.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 69
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- Civil society and people of African descent groups should continue with the development of a collective vision and strategy for improving the access to quality education for people of African descent by empowering them through the right to education.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68s
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- [States should also:] Institute national systematic monitoring and evaluation of the negative effects of racism and discrimination on the educational progress of children of African descent, including an analysis of the intersectional effects of social class, gender, religion and geography.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68r
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- [States should also:] Develop truly inclusive classroom pedagogy for all with culturally relevant curricula that celebrates the history and contribution 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)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68p
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- [States should also:] Provide sufficient budgetary resources and adopt measures, including affirmative action policies, at all levels of education for people of African descent, as a means for Governments to recognize the existence of structural discrimination and to combat it;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68o
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- [States should also:] Guarantee a smooth transition from early childhood to primary and secondary educational facilities without discriminatory competitive placement systems (e.g., common entrance examinations);
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 68n
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- [States should also:] Promote access to new technologies that would offer people of African descent, particularly women, children and young people, adequate resources for education, technological development and long-distance learning in local communities;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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