Advancement of racial justice and equality

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Background

At its forty-eighth session (13 September-11 October 2021), the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 48/18, in which it requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study in which it examines patterns, policies and processes contributing to incidents of racial discrimination and makes proposals to advance racial justice and equality, which should be firmly anchored in the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the attainment of its Goals, in consultation where possible with the Office of the High Commissioner and the international independent expert mechanism to advance racial justice and equality in the context of law enforcement established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 47/21, and to present the study to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fourth session (September 2023).

The Advisory Committee established a drafting group at its twenty-seventh session, held from 21 to 25 February 2022.

Drafting group

At the time of finalization of the report, the members of the drafting group were:

Nurah ALAMRO
Noor AL-JEHANI
Buhm-Suk BAEK
Nadia BERNOUSSI
Milena COSTAS TRASCASAS
Jewel MAJOR
Ajai MALHOTRA
Javier PALUMMO
Vasilka SANCIN
Dheerujlall SEETULSINGH
Catherine VAN DE HEYNING (Chair)
Frans VILJOEN (Rapporteur)

The final report of the Advisory Committee was submitted to the fifty-fourth session (September 2023) of the Human Rights Council, see Advancing racial justice and equality by uprooting systemic racism (2023) – A/HRC/54/70