Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s (the Committee) development of a General Recommendation regarding reparations for the historical injustices from the chattel enslavement of Africans, and the ensuing harms and crimes to people of African descent (the General Recommendation).
The legacies of chattel enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism continue to obstruct the full realisation of the human rights of Africans and people of African descent around the world, including the right to equality and non-discrimination, enshrined in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)