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UN condemns this week's deadly gun violence in US
8 July 2016 – United Nations officials today spoke out against recent violence in the United States which has left several people dead, expressing both outrage and condemnation over the killings, and highlighting the need for more to be done to fight discrimination.
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FEATURE: Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover calls out racism, Afrophobia in the Americas
30 June 2016 – The international community must increase its commitment to fighting Afrophobia and discrimination against people of African descent, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador and actor Danny Glover has said, speaking during the International Decade for People of African Descent.
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Colombia: UN experts urge protection of Afro-Colombian communities against elevating violence
Distressed over reports of violence against people of African descent in Colombia, a United Nations expert panel has called on the authorities to take concrete and urgent measures to protect the country’s Afro-Colombian communities.
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Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers
Did you know that India and Africa have a shared history in music, religion, trade, arts and architecture? An exhibit titled “Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers,” on display at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 8 February to 30 March 2016, explores that history. The exhibit was organized by the UN Department of Public Information’s Remember Slavery Programme and presented in partnership with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations.
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UN experts urge US to address legacies of the past, police impunity and ‘crisis of racial injustice’
The legacy of slavery, post-Reconstruction ‘Jim Crow’ laws and racial subordination in the United States remains a “serious challenge” as there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations for people of African descent, a United Nations expert panel said in Washington D.C. on 29 January 2016, at the end of its second official visit to the country.
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Brochure on the International Decade for People of African Descent
This brochure was produced to accompany a exhibit at UN Headquarters in January 2016. It provides a brief overview of the background, objectives and activities of the Decade.
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Latin America faces huge task to reverse discrimination against Afro-descendants – UN rights chief
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, saying he was struck by the “enormity of the task” over the next decade to reverse five centuries of discrimination against the 150 million people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, has urged the region to draw on “the untapped potential in hitherto invisible communities.”
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Booklet on the International Decade for People of African Descent
With a foreword by the Secretary-General and an introduction by the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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"If you want to liberate your body, liberate your mind" (Africa Renewal, April 2015)
Inteview with Sam Kutesa, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s sixty-ninth session
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African-Americans resettle in Africa (Africa Renewal, April 2015)
Ghana is the first African country to open its doors to people of African descent from all over the world – but bureaucracy takes a toll.