Fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

Side event
Reparation and Its Many Faces

Date, time and time zone of side event: 
Wednesday 15 April
12:45 – 13:45 pm

Location of the side event: Room XI, building A, Palais des Nations

Sponsoring organization(s) or entity/ies: Observatório da Branquitude (Whiteness Observatory), African Futures Lab, The Guardian, Libera

Language(s) in which the side event will be held: Portuguese and English

Description of the side event
Reparation is a historical debt that must be claimed. The legacy of slavery and colonialism continues to produce structural racism, poverty and violence against Black populations across all continents. Since Durban (2001), the international recognition of these crimes opened a political agenda that the Whiteness Observatory takes as its central mission: to interrogate the privileges that sustain racial inequalities and to build, alongside leaders from North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa, concrete pathways toward restorative justice. Without memory there is no reparation. Without reparation there is no democracy.

Name and email address of the lead organizer Manuela Thamani; Executive Director, Observatório da Branquitude (Whiteness Observatory) [email protected]