UN proclaims International Decade for People of African Descent

The General Assembly adopted resolution 62/122, establishing 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and calling for a permanent...

The first annual UN observance made the memory of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic trade part of the organization’s public calendar. Commemoration can challenge historical erasure, but...

General Assembly resolution 64/169 proclaimed 2011 an International Year for People of African Descent, aiming to strengthen national action and international cooperation. The resolution centered...

The General Assembly held a high-level meeting on the tenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. The gathering renewed attention to racism, racial discrimination,...

At their 34th regular meeting, CARICOM Heads of Government mandated a regional commission and national committees to pursue reparatory justice for Indigenous and African-descended communities. The...

CARICOM governments unanimously approved a ten-point plan proposed by the Reparations Commission. It links formal apology and repatriation with health, education, cultural institutions,...

CARICOM Heads of Government accepted a ten-point Caribbean Reparatory Justice Programme as a basis for further action. It called for a full formal apology and measures including education, health,...

Commission chair Hilary Beckles addressed the UK House of Commons on reparations, carrying the regional case into the legislature of a former imperial power. The appearance made historical...

At the opening of the Second Regional Conference on Reparations in Antigua and Barbuda, former Jamaican prime minister P. J. Patterson urged a new generation of Caribbean leaders to continue the...

The UN decade began with a mandate to promote recognition, justice and development for people of African descent. States and civil society used the decade to document historical legacies, challenge...