24th session of the Working Group

The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent public session Data for Racial Justice will be held in Geneva from 25-29 March 2019.  This thematic session will involve specific focus on its mapping exercise and bring together experts to discuss the human rights situation of people of African descent globally. It will also involve a comprehensive look at varied intersections of big data and racial justice (and injustice) globally.

Outcomes:

Annual Report to Human Rights Council; Thematic Focus: Data for Racial Profiling

View Report page / Download report (A/HRC/42/59)

Background documentation:

• Provisional Agenda
• Concept note
• Programme of work
• Call for data and analysis on the human rights situation of people of African descent-
  Guidance Note English | Français | Español and Data template

Day 1

• Ahmed Reid: Draft report on negative stereotypes
• Dominique Day: Mapping Exercise summary

Day 2

• German Freire – Afro-Descendants in Latin America
• Lilla Farkas – Ethnic Data Collection in the EU
• Marcus Bell – The Race Disparity Audit in the UK
• Michal Balcerzak - Item 6: Thematic Discussion, People of African Descent in Europe
• Pastor Murillo- Questions Raised by Racial Statistics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with Emphasis on the Justice System
• Rossalina Latcheva – Being Black in the EU
• Ahmed Reid: Data for Reparation- Table

Day 3

• Dominique Day – Data for Racial Justice
• Yeshimabeit Milner – Data for Black Lives
• Rev. Dr. Karen Georgina Thompson – The Trauma of Black Living
• Ricardo Sunga III – Data on People of African Descent in Asia
• Pastor Murillo – Representacion de los Afrodescendientes Tabla
• Dr. Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya – Identifying and Empowering Afrodescendants in South Asia and the Gulf

Day 4

• Sabelo Gumedze – Data and Racial Justice
• Sir Geoff Palmer – Slavery and Reparative Justice
• Verene Shepherd – Data Collection and Social Justice
• Yeshimabeit Milner – Abolish Big Data

Relevant reports/data

• Latin America Regional Report for the Montevideo Consensus on the International Conference on Population and Development (Chapter 3)
• Latin American Regional report on People of African Descent by ECLAC and UNFPA
• Afro-descendants in Latin America : Toward a Framework of Inclusion
• Being Black in the EU/Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey
• UK Government Ethnicity facts and figures