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3rd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

16 – 19 April 2024, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

THEME OF THE SESSION: The Second International Decade for People of African Descent: Addressing Systemic Racism, Reparatory Justice, and Sustainable Development. 


The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is pleased to announce that the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent will take place from 16 – 19 April 2024 in the Palais des Nations of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland. 




Friday, April 19 • 09:45 - 10:45
Side event - The Second International Decade Challenge; Protecting Women and Girls of African Descent after 400 years of State Violence

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The Second International Decade Challenge; Protecting Women and Girls of African Descent after 400 years of State Violence

Date, time and time zone of side event
Friday, April 19th
9:45 - 10:45 am

Sponsoring organization(s) or entity/ies
  • WAPB-thewapb.org -The WAPB is a Community Policing and Human Rights social entrepreneurship whose mission is to become the premier organization providing services, education, and training to eradicate violence against women during policing encounters, including female officers.
  • APP-HRC/Solitude -Solitude (wordpress.com) - A international human rights research consortium focusing on black women of African descent across the Diaspora building on a foundation of reparative justice.
Language(s) in which the side event will be held
English

Description of the side event
This side event/workshop will look at the qualitative and quantitative cost of state violence through various institutions, laws, and policies to the black woman of African descent over generations. The panelists will also provide reparative justice models and recommendations that protect and re-define the African woman's womb as a renewed space of
generational healing, wealth, and nation building.

Contact details of the organizer: Crista Noel, cnoel@thewapb.org 

Friday April 19, 2024 09:45 - 10:45 BST
Palais des Nations, Room XXI