Fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

Launching G-SAP: The Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent
Side-event at the 4^th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African descent
This side-event at the UN Headquarters in NYC will officially launch the Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP). G-SAP is a global research network organized around the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

G-SAP will bring together scholars, educators, academic institutions, schools and universities,
Member States, UN agencies, funds and programmes, civil society organizations and activists across the world to:

• Facilitate knowledge exchange, produce knowledge and provide research-based policy advice on the human rights and socio-economic development of Africans and people of African descent.
• Promote public awareness on the human rights and socio-economic development of Africans and people of African descent.
• Promote and strengthen Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Studies, African Diaspora Studies and any other studies on Africans and people of African descent at universities and schools across the world.
• Promote socially and politically engaged research and education on Africans and people of African descent that are relevant to the liberation, human rights and socio-economic development of Africans and people of African descent.

Participants at the 4^th Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent are warmly welcome to join the historic launch and timely mission of G-SAP.

Date: Tuesday 15 April 2025

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m

Room: CRE, United Nations Headquarters in New York

Organizers:
Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Mame-Fatou Niang (Director of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic, Carnegie Mellon University), Mactar Ndoye (retired Human Rights Officer at the OHCHR).

Participants:

• Michael McEachrane, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
• Barbara Reynolds, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
• Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva, New York University
• Professor Kia Caldwell, Washington University in St Louis, President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
• Professor Keisha N. Blain, Brown University
• Professor Tao Leigh Goffe, Hunter College of the City University of New York

Moderator:
Professor Mame-Fatou Niang, Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English