Human Rights & Justice

The UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent: Black Women Advancing Reparations in Geneva

December 27, 2022 Nkechi Season 1 Episode 14
Human Rights & Justice
The UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent: Black Women Advancing Reparations in Geneva
Show Notes

 Human Rights and Justice Host Nkechi Taifa interviews members of the International Civil Society Delegation as they bring critical diasporic African issues to the front at historic international convening in Switzerland. Esteemed guests include:

Dr. Amara Enyia, JD PhD - joining from Geneva. Dr. Amara is chair of the Intl Civil Society Working Group for the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, President of Global Black, and Manager of Policy and Research for the Movement for Black Lives

Dr. Vickie Casanova-Willis - joining from Geneva. Vickie was sent by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a delegate to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

Angela Proctor - Archivist and Digital Librarian for Southern Univeristy, lead researcher interviewing descendants of the GU272

Rochelle Sanders-Prater and Dawn Mellion-Patin - Descendants of the nearly 300 enslaved Africans sold into the sugarcane plantation by the Jesuits to save Georgetown University from bankruptcy.