COUNCIL FOR AFRIKA INTERNATIONAL welcomes the United Nation's Declaration of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent but cautions that it has come rather late and unless an urgent suite of creative, innovative, unorthodox action-backed paradigms are taken to comprehensively and irreversibly eradicate discrimination faced by persons of African ancestry and the African Continent, the entrenched African Holocaust will continue.
To substantiate the declaration, Council for Afrika International advocates for the UN's speedy, conscientious, formal Recognition and Action to remedy Afrophobia, Security Council Permanent Membership and Veto, Supremacist Black and White Racial Hierarchical Construct, Grotesque Economic Conundrum, African Holocaust and Reconstructive Reparations through a 21st Century 'Marshal Plan' for Africa. In furtherance, Council for Afrika International advises the UN to extend the stated limited scope of the theme of the declaration to encapsulate the 'interests of the African Continent' towards an appropriate holistic paradigm model, without delay.
According to Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the Council for Afrika International, “Once again the silence on the radar of some major international human rights agencies on the significance of the International Day of Eradication of Racism and the UN Declaration of 2011 as International Year for Persons of African Ancestry is telling indeed. We are cautiously optimistic about this declaration, given the record of the United Nations in not responding urgently to matters that affect Global Africans and the African Continent. Neither was its predecessor League of Nations under which Africans and the African Continent suffered some of the grotesque injustices and inhumanities in human history. The current state of the African Continent and the conditions of majority Africans bear excellent testimony to centuries old entrenched injustices, which must be eradicated. If the UN is serious about this declaration, it must be seen to rapidly mobilize the oft-cited international community to end the causes of poverty, disease, record capital flight, discrimination, exclusion and marginalization of all forms against Africa and Global Africans, which are the greatest killers of Africans, the same way that it has done in other matters. That is why the Council for Afrika International, amongst others, proactively advocates for a comprehensive radical overhaul of the UN system, to transform it into a responsive and inclusive international agency that reflects the principle of equality, the reality of globalised 'one' world, global citizenship and global citizenship rights i.e. a proper fit for the claim of 'international community'. 2011 is a golden opportunity for the UN to prove that is either friend or foe of Global Africans and the African Continent ” there is no obfuscation of this subject matter of conscience, equality and justice.
"A relevant and classical example of the UN tradition's [including the League of Nations] insensitivity to injustices against Africa and Africans is the length of time it took for different stages of the African Holocaust to be abolished - notably the Trans-Atlantic Trade, colonialism and apartheid. South African Apartheid was first registered at the UN for consideration as a crime against humanity in July 1948, and yet it was not until the 1977 protocol, after 30 years of bloodshed before the UN accepted apartheid as a crime against humanity, after which it took some two decades for apartheid to be overthrown in South Africa in 1994, after multi-party elections which was won by the ANC with the release of Nelson Mandela from 27 years of incarceration on the notorious Roben Island. It was during oppressive dictatorial apartheid regime, on 21st March 1960 that the Sharpeville Massacre happened in South Africa in which 69 unarmed Africans were brutally and cold-bloodedly murdered in their own homeland - by racist European South African Settler regime. Even then and sadly, it took the UN another 9 years i.e. nearly a decade of so much suffering for the UN General Assembly to declare 21st March as an International Day for Elimination of All Form of Racial Discrimination. The records show an international regime de-sensitized towards the brutal oppression, murder and suffering of the African people as well as establish a perspective of entrenched anti-Africanism. Similarly, it has taken the UN over 60 years to find it expedient to proclaim an International Year for Persons of African Descent / Ancestry. How appalling?
"Council for Afrika International has studied the UN Program for Declaring 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent and establish that there is nothing creative, innovative or radical that indicates and commands serious response to the severity of afflictions that blight people of African Descent including African Holocaust. In this we are very disappointed. We therefore make the following demands to the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union and the Organization of American States.
"The context is for the United Nations, European Union, Organisation of American States and all regional bodies to be reminded of what Africa is and its significant contribution to human civilization. Africa is the second largest continent in the world, with over 1billion people of the world's population excluding Diaspora Africans estimated at another 1biliion of the global population of circa 6 billion. Africa is the scientifically-proven origin of mankind and cradle of human civilization and one of the natural resource rich continents of the world, yet impoverished through a combination of factors including a hostile international economic disorder, unfair trade and the monopoly of international commonwealth, science, technology, engineering and industrialization by the Global North.
"Afrika International suggests that the United Nations adds the phrase 'Interests of the African Continent' to the theme of the International Year for People of African Ancestry. We consider the interests of People of African Ancestry and the African Continent as mutually inclusive and in-exclusive i.e. reference of origin or ancestry. Similarly, Afrika International requests that the United Nations restructures the designation of the Year 'International Year for PROTECTION of People of African Ancestry and Interests of the African Continent.'
"Council for Afrika International notes that there are no clear measurable outcomes to optimize the opportunities that the year presents in terminating the hardships encountered by the global community of Africans, nor the vortex of blight that is enforced on the African Continent.
"Below, Afrika International presents a schedule of Long-Overdue and Outstanding demands for United Nations Formal Recognition necessary to oxygenate and catalyze African Justice, Liberation, Freedom and Equality that bring meaning, immediacy and substance to the Declaration of 2011 as the 'International Year for Persons of African Ancestry' even as the theme stands at present.
"Council for Afrika International demands formal United Nations Recognition of:
1- Afrophobia to reflect the reality of distinct hatred, fear and discrimination against persons of African Ancestry and the interests of the African Continent and to support the ongoing campaign against it. We consider the nebulous obfuscation of afrophobia under the generic umbrella of 'racism' as inadequate and an obstacle to the eradication of discrimination targeted at Africans, Diaspora Africans and the interests of the African Continent. We site the identification and recognition of anti-Semitism after the Jewish Holocaust as a good example to extend to acknowledge discrimination against the Global African Community.
2- Permanent African Union Membership with Veto at the United Nations Security Council. African citizens fought in both two World Wars and Africa has contributed continuously to the Global Commonwealth. The African Continent is the second largest continent on earth with over 1 billion citizens in addition to an estimated 1 billion Diaspora Africans. We consider it discriminatory that in the 62 years of its existence, the United Nations has not found it expedient to include African Permanent Representation with veto rights on the Security Council and strongly cite it as evident of afrophobia. Further, we consider this classical exclusion of Africa as contradicting the spirit of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of human Rights.
3- Abolition of the Black and White Supremacist Racial Hierarchy Framework and its Replacement with a more Ethical Human Equality Reference Framework. Afrophobia is further reflected in the existing and widely-applied black and white racist framework that is used to monitor and collect ethnic data which is at best an incoherent mixture of geographical and ethnic labels. We submit that the framework is disadvantageous and discriminatory to Africans and Diaspora Africans and defeats the purpose of eliminating discrimination against Africans and other forms of racial discrimination. 'Black' and 'White' is clearly supremacist, predicated in Scientific Racism and used to justify the unleashing of the African Holocaust including the Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Colonialism and Apartheid. We therefore call for its immediate proscription and its replacement with a consistent framework that is primarily based on geographical origin " Africans, African Americans, Jews, American Jews, British English, British Africans, British Asians, British Russians, etc. We consider the retention of 'black' and 'white' racial reference categorization as racist, nourishing of racist mentality and contradictory to the UN Charter and other UN Conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4- The Reality of the African Holocaust, Practical Measures for its Denouncement and Abolishment. A holocaust is a great destruction or loss of life. The African Holocaust was unleashed ever since foreign invasions of the African Continent centuries ago. In sustained fashion and driven by afrophobia, the African Holocaust encapsulates the early invasions, cartel slavery, colonialism, apartheid, neo-colonialism and the African conundrum of impoverishment and economic enslavement, characterized by destruction of African civilization, bloodshed and continued loss of lives to date. The African Holocaust has cost more lives, is the most sustained, long drawn in human history and yet to be acknowledged. If African lives are equal to other human life as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then we ask the United Nations to acknowledge the African Holocaust as such, categorize it as a crime against humanity, punishable by law. The Jewish Holocaust was real and we support the UN in recognizing, denouncing and taking action against it. We expect similar for the African Holocaust in 2011.
5- The Denouncement of and Radical Measures to eliminate the Grotesque African Economic Conundrum that has blighted the African people for far too long i.e. richly resource-endowed but abjectly impoverished syndrome. Though Africa continues to be one of the most richly blessed continents on earth in natural resource endowment, and at least $1.06 Trillion finance capital is hemorrhaged annually, the majority of Africans live in unacceptable abject poverty. For centuries, Africa's priciest natural resources have been in control of foreign interests who have largely exploited these for their interests to the detriment of African citizens facilitated through the Global North's monopoly of industrialization, technology, science, engineering, medicine, pharmaceuticals and related technologies. This is inconsistent with UN Declarations and Conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Sovereignty over Natural Resources. We call for radical UN action to stem the tide of circa 350,000 preventable African deaths per month due to abject poverty and impoverishment. We stress that poverty is the greatest killer of Africans, is integral to the African Holocaust and advocate for an unprecedented creative and rapid UN action to eliminate it and restore justice to Africa and its people.
6- The Urgent Need of Reparations to Right the Wrongs of Colonialism and Neocolonialism i.e. Imperialism by funding the Restoration and Construction of Africa. The facts of mammoth wealth from Africa to former colonial economies of the Global North cannot be disputed. Conversely, the adverse effects of foreign exploitation and rule in Africa are not in dispute. Unfortunately, the truth in these instances of most sustained human rights crimes against Africa and its people have never been adequately acknowledged, properly accounted for nor most importantly, rectified. The UN's own designation of 21st March and 25th March as International Day for the Elimination of Racism plus International Day for the Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Trans-Atlantic Slavery respectively confirms these injustices. Further, the UN's designation of 2011 as the Year for Africans and Persons of African Descent is a step in the right direction, though very belated vis-a-vis the sheer entrenched and enduring human, financial, natural resource, generational and futuristic costs. The formula is simple " to launch and undertake a 21st Century equivalent of 'Marshal Plan' for the comprehensive Reconstruction of Africa commensurate with the financial loss inflicted on the Continent and its people.
"We believe that though belated, the UN's Declaration of 2011 as the Year for Persons of African Descent is relevant, but require the foregoing measurable actions to substantiate the designation, beyond limited impact orthodoxy. Otherwise we are concerned that like many of its predecessor declarations, 2011 will pass as mainly cosmetic without positive outcomes and impact for the majority of Global Africans. Such a prospect is preventable with the UN giving the foregoing reasonable demands serious attention, as a listening and relevant organization that means serious business to positively and drastically change the plight of majority longsuffering Africans.
"These are subject matters that the Council for Afrika continues to campaign and our advocacy for the same continues until comprehensive justice is restored where all wrongs against Global Africans and the African Continent are righted. The UN Declaration of 2011 as the Year for Persons of African Descent is a good policy and operational environment to intensify our campaign and we seek to do so. We hope the UN will join this right cause, alongside a global community of conscience which has at critical times supported the cause for the total freedom, justice, emancipation, the restoration of global citizenship and human rights to Global Africans and the African Continent."
Notes to Editors
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, the Racist Apartheid Police opened fire and killed 69 unarmed people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid "pass laws". Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination (resolution 2142 (XXI)).
Since then, the apartheid system in South Africa has been dismantled. Racist laws and practices have been abolished in many countries, and we have built an international framework for fighting racism, guided by the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Convention is now nearing universal ratification, yet still, in all regions, too many individuals, communities and societies suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings.
The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights". The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reminds us of our collective responsibility for promoting and protecting this ideal.
The Council for Afrika International is an independent, victims-led, non-supremacist think and doing tank that works for the eradication of afrophobia and anti-africanism i.e. discrimination, injustice and all forms of cruelty directed at persons of African ancestry in consonance with UN Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, through advocacy, representation and campaigns for new platforms, schools of thought, approaches and paradigms.
AFRIKA INTERNATIONAL positively promotes the reinstatement of the rights, wellbeing and security of Africans and persons of African ancestry as equal global citizens and peaceful coexistence within the human race. The Council counters structural constructs, policies, strategies and decisions that dehumanise and undermine the dignity of Africa, persons of African ancestry and the interests of the African continent. In the pursuit of our purpose, we adopt a joined-up approach for an international coalition of individuals, all relevant local, regional, national and international agencies through proactive partnership and engagement strategies.
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To substantiate the declaration, Council for Afrika International advocates for the UN's speedy, conscientious, formal Recognition and Action to remedy Afrophobia, Security Council Permanent Membership and Veto, Supremacist Black and White Racial Hierarchical Construct, Grotesque Economic Conundrum, African Holocaust and Reconstructive Reparations through a 21st Century 'Marshal Plan' for Africa. In furtherance, Council for Afrika International advises the UN to extend the stated limited scope of the theme of the declaration to encapsulate the 'interests of the African Continent' towards an appropriate holistic paradigm model, without delay.
According to Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the Council for Afrika International, “Once again the silence on the radar of some major international human rights agencies on the significance of the International Day of Eradication of Racism and the UN Declaration of 2011 as International Year for Persons of African Ancestry is telling indeed. We are cautiously optimistic about this declaration, given the record of the United Nations in not responding urgently to matters that affect Global Africans and the African Continent. Neither was its predecessor League of Nations under which Africans and the African Continent suffered some of the grotesque injustices and inhumanities in human history. The current state of the African Continent and the conditions of majority Africans bear excellent testimony to centuries old entrenched injustices, which must be eradicated. If the UN is serious about this declaration, it must be seen to rapidly mobilize the oft-cited international community to end the causes of poverty, disease, record capital flight, discrimination, exclusion and marginalization of all forms against Africa and Global Africans, which are the greatest killers of Africans, the same way that it has done in other matters. That is why the Council for Afrika International, amongst others, proactively advocates for a comprehensive radical overhaul of the UN system, to transform it into a responsive and inclusive international agency that reflects the principle of equality, the reality of globalised 'one' world, global citizenship and global citizenship rights i.e. a proper fit for the claim of 'international community'. 2011 is a golden opportunity for the UN to prove that is either friend or foe of Global Africans and the African Continent ” there is no obfuscation of this subject matter of conscience, equality and justice.
"A relevant and classical example of the UN tradition's [including the League of Nations] insensitivity to injustices against Africa and Africans is the length of time it took for different stages of the African Holocaust to be abolished - notably the Trans-Atlantic Trade, colonialism and apartheid. South African Apartheid was first registered at the UN for consideration as a crime against humanity in July 1948, and yet it was not until the 1977 protocol, after 30 years of bloodshed before the UN accepted apartheid as a crime against humanity, after which it took some two decades for apartheid to be overthrown in South Africa in 1994, after multi-party elections which was won by the ANC with the release of Nelson Mandela from 27 years of incarceration on the notorious Roben Island. It was during oppressive dictatorial apartheid regime, on 21st March 1960 that the Sharpeville Massacre happened in South Africa in which 69 unarmed Africans were brutally and cold-bloodedly murdered in their own homeland - by racist European South African Settler regime. Even then and sadly, it took the UN another 9 years i.e. nearly a decade of so much suffering for the UN General Assembly to declare 21st March as an International Day for Elimination of All Form of Racial Discrimination. The records show an international regime de-sensitized towards the brutal oppression, murder and suffering of the African people as well as establish a perspective of entrenched anti-Africanism. Similarly, it has taken the UN over 60 years to find it expedient to proclaim an International Year for Persons of African Descent / Ancestry. How appalling?
"Council for Afrika International has studied the UN Program for Declaring 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent and establish that there is nothing creative, innovative or radical that indicates and commands serious response to the severity of afflictions that blight people of African Descent including African Holocaust. In this we are very disappointed. We therefore make the following demands to the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union and the Organization of American States.
"The context is for the United Nations, European Union, Organisation of American States and all regional bodies to be reminded of what Africa is and its significant contribution to human civilization. Africa is the second largest continent in the world, with over 1billion people of the world's population excluding Diaspora Africans estimated at another 1biliion of the global population of circa 6 billion. Africa is the scientifically-proven origin of mankind and cradle of human civilization and one of the natural resource rich continents of the world, yet impoverished through a combination of factors including a hostile international economic disorder, unfair trade and the monopoly of international commonwealth, science, technology, engineering and industrialization by the Global North.
"Afrika International suggests that the United Nations adds the phrase 'Interests of the African Continent' to the theme of the International Year for People of African Ancestry. We consider the interests of People of African Ancestry and the African Continent as mutually inclusive and in-exclusive i.e. reference of origin or ancestry. Similarly, Afrika International requests that the United Nations restructures the designation of the Year 'International Year for PROTECTION of People of African Ancestry and Interests of the African Continent.'
"Council for Afrika International notes that there are no clear measurable outcomes to optimize the opportunities that the year presents in terminating the hardships encountered by the global community of Africans, nor the vortex of blight that is enforced on the African Continent.
"Below, Afrika International presents a schedule of Long-Overdue and Outstanding demands for United Nations Formal Recognition necessary to oxygenate and catalyze African Justice, Liberation, Freedom and Equality that bring meaning, immediacy and substance to the Declaration of 2011 as the 'International Year for Persons of African Ancestry' even as the theme stands at present.
"Council for Afrika International demands formal United Nations Recognition of:
1- Afrophobia to reflect the reality of distinct hatred, fear and discrimination against persons of African Ancestry and the interests of the African Continent and to support the ongoing campaign against it. We consider the nebulous obfuscation of afrophobia under the generic umbrella of 'racism' as inadequate and an obstacle to the eradication of discrimination targeted at Africans, Diaspora Africans and the interests of the African Continent. We site the identification and recognition of anti-Semitism after the Jewish Holocaust as a good example to extend to acknowledge discrimination against the Global African Community.
2- Permanent African Union Membership with Veto at the United Nations Security Council. African citizens fought in both two World Wars and Africa has contributed continuously to the Global Commonwealth. The African Continent is the second largest continent on earth with over 1 billion citizens in addition to an estimated 1 billion Diaspora Africans. We consider it discriminatory that in the 62 years of its existence, the United Nations has not found it expedient to include African Permanent Representation with veto rights on the Security Council and strongly cite it as evident of afrophobia. Further, we consider this classical exclusion of Africa as contradicting the spirit of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of human Rights.
3- Abolition of the Black and White Supremacist Racial Hierarchy Framework and its Replacement with a more Ethical Human Equality Reference Framework. Afrophobia is further reflected in the existing and widely-applied black and white racist framework that is used to monitor and collect ethnic data which is at best an incoherent mixture of geographical and ethnic labels. We submit that the framework is disadvantageous and discriminatory to Africans and Diaspora Africans and defeats the purpose of eliminating discrimination against Africans and other forms of racial discrimination. 'Black' and 'White' is clearly supremacist, predicated in Scientific Racism and used to justify the unleashing of the African Holocaust including the Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Colonialism and Apartheid. We therefore call for its immediate proscription and its replacement with a consistent framework that is primarily based on geographical origin " Africans, African Americans, Jews, American Jews, British English, British Africans, British Asians, British Russians, etc. We consider the retention of 'black' and 'white' racial reference categorization as racist, nourishing of racist mentality and contradictory to the UN Charter and other UN Conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4- The Reality of the African Holocaust, Practical Measures for its Denouncement and Abolishment. A holocaust is a great destruction or loss of life. The African Holocaust was unleashed ever since foreign invasions of the African Continent centuries ago. In sustained fashion and driven by afrophobia, the African Holocaust encapsulates the early invasions, cartel slavery, colonialism, apartheid, neo-colonialism and the African conundrum of impoverishment and economic enslavement, characterized by destruction of African civilization, bloodshed and continued loss of lives to date. The African Holocaust has cost more lives, is the most sustained, long drawn in human history and yet to be acknowledged. If African lives are equal to other human life as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then we ask the United Nations to acknowledge the African Holocaust as such, categorize it as a crime against humanity, punishable by law. The Jewish Holocaust was real and we support the UN in recognizing, denouncing and taking action against it. We expect similar for the African Holocaust in 2011.
5- The Denouncement of and Radical Measures to eliminate the Grotesque African Economic Conundrum that has blighted the African people for far too long i.e. richly resource-endowed but abjectly impoverished syndrome. Though Africa continues to be one of the most richly blessed continents on earth in natural resource endowment, and at least $1.06 Trillion finance capital is hemorrhaged annually, the majority of Africans live in unacceptable abject poverty. For centuries, Africa's priciest natural resources have been in control of foreign interests who have largely exploited these for their interests to the detriment of African citizens facilitated through the Global North's monopoly of industrialization, technology, science, engineering, medicine, pharmaceuticals and related technologies. This is inconsistent with UN Declarations and Conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Sovereignty over Natural Resources. We call for radical UN action to stem the tide of circa 350,000 preventable African deaths per month due to abject poverty and impoverishment. We stress that poverty is the greatest killer of Africans, is integral to the African Holocaust and advocate for an unprecedented creative and rapid UN action to eliminate it and restore justice to Africa and its people.
6- The Urgent Need of Reparations to Right the Wrongs of Colonialism and Neocolonialism i.e. Imperialism by funding the Restoration and Construction of Africa. The facts of mammoth wealth from Africa to former colonial economies of the Global North cannot be disputed. Conversely, the adverse effects of foreign exploitation and rule in Africa are not in dispute. Unfortunately, the truth in these instances of most sustained human rights crimes against Africa and its people have never been adequately acknowledged, properly accounted for nor most importantly, rectified. The UN's own designation of 21st March and 25th March as International Day for the Elimination of Racism plus International Day for the Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Trans-Atlantic Slavery respectively confirms these injustices. Further, the UN's designation of 2011 as the Year for Africans and Persons of African Descent is a step in the right direction, though very belated vis-a-vis the sheer entrenched and enduring human, financial, natural resource, generational and futuristic costs. The formula is simple " to launch and undertake a 21st Century equivalent of 'Marshal Plan' for the comprehensive Reconstruction of Africa commensurate with the financial loss inflicted on the Continent and its people.
"We believe that though belated, the UN's Declaration of 2011 as the Year for Persons of African Descent is relevant, but require the foregoing measurable actions to substantiate the designation, beyond limited impact orthodoxy. Otherwise we are concerned that like many of its predecessor declarations, 2011 will pass as mainly cosmetic without positive outcomes and impact for the majority of Global Africans. Such a prospect is preventable with the UN giving the foregoing reasonable demands serious attention, as a listening and relevant organization that means serious business to positively and drastically change the plight of majority longsuffering Africans.
"These are subject matters that the Council for Afrika continues to campaign and our advocacy for the same continues until comprehensive justice is restored where all wrongs against Global Africans and the African Continent are righted. The UN Declaration of 2011 as the Year for Persons of African Descent is a good policy and operational environment to intensify our campaign and we seek to do so. We hope the UN will join this right cause, alongside a global community of conscience which has at critical times supported the cause for the total freedom, justice, emancipation, the restoration of global citizenship and human rights to Global Africans and the African Continent."
Notes to Editors
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, the Racist Apartheid Police opened fire and killed 69 unarmed people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid "pass laws". Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination (resolution 2142 (XXI)).
Since then, the apartheid system in South Africa has been dismantled. Racist laws and practices have been abolished in many countries, and we have built an international framework for fighting racism, guided by the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Convention is now nearing universal ratification, yet still, in all regions, too many individuals, communities and societies suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings.
The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights". The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reminds us of our collective responsibility for promoting and protecting this ideal.
The Council for Afrika International is an independent, victims-led, non-supremacist think and doing tank that works for the eradication of afrophobia and anti-africanism i.e. discrimination, injustice and all forms of cruelty directed at persons of African ancestry in consonance with UN Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, through advocacy, representation and campaigns for new platforms, schools of thought, approaches and paradigms.
AFRIKA INTERNATIONAL positively promotes the reinstatement of the rights, wellbeing and security of Africans and persons of African ancestry as equal global citizens and peaceful coexistence within the human race. The Council counters structural constructs, policies, strategies and decisions that dehumanise and undermine the dignity of Africa, persons of African ancestry and the interests of the African continent. In the pursuit of our purpose, we adopt a joined-up approach for an international coalition of individuals, all relevant local, regional, national and international agencies through proactive partnership and engagement strategies.
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