Fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

All for Reparations and Emancipation (AFRE/CURE) is an education and advocacy organization in support of reparations and self-determination for Afrodescendants across the slavery diaspora. AFRE was granted UN Consultative NGO Status in 1997 under the name CURE – Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation. The NGO made a name change in the year 2000.

AFRE facilitated the interventions of Afrodescendant leaders in various UN working groups, commissions, conferences and forums more than 30 times from 1998 to 2006. The communications were focused on the deprivation and denial of the human rights of minorities articulated in Article 27 of the ICCPR. Afrodescendants throughout the slavery diaspora have lost their connection to their mother tongue, culture, religion, family lineage and history. They were left without a human identity. Among the many horrors of trans-generational enslavement is the forced transition of human to slave. This is the crime of ethnocide and the damage lingers today. Afrodescendants are experiencing Ethnogenesis, the re-establishment of the mind or the “Resurrection” of a people who have lost the identity of ‘Self’ due to 400 years of “Slavery.”

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