Summary

In line with the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent, the present report is focused on the enjoyment of human rights by children and young people of African descent.

The report draws on the work of international human rights mechanisms and the responses of stakeholders to a questionnaire circulated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The experiences of children and young people of African descent of racial discrimination, manifested in its various dimensions, are set out. The way in which the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has further magnified existing patterns of discrimination is highlighted, and promising practices for the realization of the rights of children and young people of African descent are outlined.