A/HRC/54/67
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 July 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–6 October 2023
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation
of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Economic empowerment of people of African descent
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent*
Summary
The present document contains the report of the Working Group of Experts on People
of African Descent on its thirty-first and thirty-second sessions, prepared pursuant to Human
Rights Council resolutions 9/14, 18/28, 27/25, 36/23 and 45/24.
During its thirty-first session, held in Geneva from 28 November to 2 December 2022,
the Working Group held private discussions. At its thirty-second session, held in Geneva
from 1 to 5 May 2023, the Working Group focused on the theme “Economic empowerment
of people of African descent”. The Working Group also held a special event on 4 May 2023
entitled “Durban memoirs by the legends of Durban”.
The Working Group has concluded that racial inequality and racial discrimination in
multiple and diverse forms fuel poverty, economic inequality and violations of the
inalienable human rights of people of African descent across the globe. The Working Group
makes several recommendations to address these concerns, key among these is the provision
of appropriate resources for the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme
of Action, a call for a second decade for people of African descent and commitment for the
finalization of the declaration on the rights of people of African descent.
* The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only.
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