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FRIDAY, 2 JUNE
Transnationalism, and le Droit de Retour: A Case Study of Benin Republic
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TUESDAY, MAY 30 @ 6:30PM
Screening of the film DURBAN 400 will be followed by a presentation by Mr. Davis Comissiong Barbados' Ambassador to CARICOM, Attorney Efia Nwangaza of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination and moderated by Attorney Roger Wareham who participated in all stages of the Durban World Conference against Racism.
(1st meeting) 2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent - Opening and General Debate
Summary: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is organizing the second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent from 30 May to 2 June 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The overarching theme of the second session is "Realizing the dream: A United Nations Declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent". Description Item 1: Opening of the session Item 2: Appointment of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Rapporteur of the Second Session Item 3: Adoption of the programme of work of the Second Session Item 4: General Debate The Second Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) will be part of a global consultative process with a focus on five thematic panels on global reparatory justice, Pan-Africanism, transnational migration, data-collection for recognising and addressing systemic and structural racism, and health, well-being and intergenerational trauma.
30 May to 2 June
At the United Nations Headquarters in New York
PRESS RELEASE
President of UN General Assembly Names
Dr. Barryl Biekman as Keynote Speaker
Sunday, September 19, 2021—New York, While the UN World Conference Against Racism marks its 20-year anniversary, Dr. Barryl Biekman will serve as Keynote Speaker for the opening session of United Nation’s High-level meeting of September 22, 2021.
Per its resolution 75/237, the General Assembly will hold a one-day high-level meeting to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), at the level of Heads of State and Government, on the theme “Reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent”.
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