(b) Afro descendants

Attention was drawn to problems faced by Afro Colombians and Afro descendants in the United States of America.

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature .

(b) Empowerment of women of African descent

(b) Empowerment of women of African descent

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition .

(b) Working Group on People of African Descent

For African Americans, Ghana has special meaning.

The Liberian constitution restricts citizenship to only people of black African descent.

Item 6 (b) Empowerment of women of African descent

(g) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

Several issues warranted discussion regarding people of African descent in politics one was how to identify people of African descent.

She discussed the lack of visibility of the contribution of women of African descent to history.

The Working Group needed to establish organic links with the centres of research for people of African descent in politics and contacts with the most prominent personalities of African descent in politics.

She recalled the Millennium Declaration, which specifically acknowledged the plight of Africa and of people of African descent and said that the advancement of gender equality among people of African descent was necessary to combat poverty, hunger and diseases.

She suggested that intensification of investments in training, information and awareness raising, inter cultural understanding, employment and the formation of associations of women of African descent, were tools for the elimination of discrimination against women of African descent and for their empowerment.

This concern was acutely felt among people of African descent living in the diaspora.

Mr. Kasanda presented a paper entitled Empowerment of women of African descent .

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its fifth session

People of African descent are often victims of double or multiple discrimination.

She insisted on education and training as preconditions for the empowerment of women of African descent.

Mr. Jabbour presented a paper entitled People of African descent in politics .

His daughter dates an African American, and, to his credit, he believes in racial reconciliation.

African Americans are one fourth as likely as Caucasians to develop this condition.

Ernest James Gaines (born January 15, 1933) is an African American author.

There is the need to collect appropriate data to ensure that women of African descent were targeted as a specific group which had specific needs to develop affirmative action policies and programmes for women of African descent and to implement gender sensitive policies.

Besides, the nomination of a woman with a North African ascent as minister of Justice made that clear from the start.

The majority of the approximately 12,000 citizens of Nevis are of primarily African descent.

Under these circumstances, people of African descent had paid and continue to pay a high price.

(a) Mainstreaming the situation of people of African descent in plans for achieving the Millennium Developing Goals.

(a) Mainstreaming the situation of people of African descent in plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

(c) Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (resolution 2003 30, para. 26)

With his white mother and his African father, he does not fit any African American precedent.

33. The Commission deplores the continued violence against indigenous and Afro Colombian communities.

The Commission deplores the continued violence against indigenous and Afro Colombian communities.

A point for further research could be compiling available pronouncements on the political situation of people of African descent delivered by presidents and presidential candidates in countries where there was a substantial Afro descendant population.

Another observer for a State said that the Working Group needed to recommend practical solutions for the empowerment of women of African descent and strategies to mainstream the situation of people of African descent into national plans to achieve the Goals and to avoid repetitions in its discussions.

This new set of questions is What does it mean, right now, to be African American in America?

Item 6 (a) Mainstreaming the situation of people of African descent in plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

As such, the situation of people of African descent could be made more visible and easily available and could inform policy making.

Edna Santos Roland proposed a list of practical measures aimed at improving the situation of people of African descent.

(c) The role of political parties in the integration of people of African descent in the political life and in decision making processes

(c) The role of political parties in the integration of people of African descent in the political life and in decision making processes.

Attention was drawn to the common features of Afro descendants as the descendants of slaves who had been deprived of their mother tongue, culture and religion.

C. Concerns and recommendations The Committee notes with concern that the State party does not have disaggregated statistical data on the Afro descendants.