* The Chair Report will be provided with overall historical backgrounds of racial discriminations against African descendants and circumstances of each country in Africa. This section will be occupied to briefly inform the issue and its importance in the Background Information. Discrimination against African nations is a politically and socially sensitive issue that has been existed since European imperialism in the 19th century. This issue is so sensitive that it is a taboo in usual conversations to say such a pejorative word like Negro, which is replaced to “N-word.” The reason why the committee has chosen the issue to be drawn attention is because there still exists remaining discrimination throughout the world, even there are some laws …show more content…
In addition, people of African descent can suffer from multiple, aggravated or intersecting forms of discrimination based on other related grounds, such as age, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, social origin, property, disability, birth, or other status. Magdalena "Piyuya" Mora Herrera, leader of the Gangá Longobá (Cuba) © Sergio Leyva Seiglie, They Are We Project
The promotion and protection of human rights of people of African descent has been a priority concern for the United Nations. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action acknowledged that people of African descent were victims of slavery, the slave trade and colonialism, and continue to be victims of their consequences.
The Durban process raised the visibility of people of African descent and contributed to a substantive advancement in the promotion and protection of their rights as a result of concrete actions taken by States, the United Nations, other international and regional bodies and civil society.
Still, despite these advances, racism and racial discrimination, both direct and indirect, continue to manifest themselves in inequality and