UN proclaims Second International Decade for People of African Descent

The Permanent Forum on People of African Descent held its first session in Geneva. The session created a recurring UN space for descendants, states and experts to discuss human rights and policy,...

At its 36th Ordinary Session, the AU Assembly endorsed Ghana’s proposal to convene an international conference on justice and reparations to Africans. The decision made reparations a continental...

California’s Reparations Task Force delivered its final report to the state legislature, documenting slavery and continuing state-sanctioned harms and proposing a comprehensive program. The state...

African governments, civil society, scholars and diaspora representatives adopted the Accra Proclamation after a continental conference. It urged a united front, stronger AU and diaspora coordination,...

The conference’s proclamation called for an AU reparations committee, a global reparations fund, a special envoy, a legal reference group, stronger AU–CARICOM–diaspora cooperation and exploration of...

The AU declared 2025 the Year of Reparations: Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations. This continental agenda connected historical recognition to policy,...

The Reparations Commission began a UK advocacy visit with meetings intended to strengthen alliances and advance dialogue on reparatory justice, historical accountability and socio-economic...

The General Assembly adopted a declaration recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Ghana led the initiative; the...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted guidance addressing reparatory justice for harms and continuing consequences of colonialism, trafficking in enslaved Africans and...