Fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent: Venues

Welcome to the draft programme of work for the fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

This page provides detailed information about the main sessions and side events, including times, locations, and speakers

For any questions or further information, please feel free to contact the Permanent Forum Secretariat at pfpad@un.org

Online

Amaze Restaurant

7:00pm • Side event - Youth Sunday Launch Dinner: Networking and Preparation for the Forum

American Museum of Natural History

10:30am • Side event - From Manahatta to Mahattan Historic Decolonial NY City tour

New York University Law School

Online

11:00am • Side event - The Intersection of Racism, Health, and Healing: A Trauma-Informed Perspective on Systems Transformation for People of African Descent

University of New York, Meyer Hall, Room 122

11:00am • Side event - Empowering Heritage Custodians - Innovations in Knowledge Sharing and Cultural Preservation.

Church Center of the United Nations

6:30pm • Side event - Mujeres Negras y la Justicia Ambiental / Black women and environmental justice

Conference Room 4, UN Headquarters

3:00pm • Side event - Reparatory Justice and Institutional Accountability: An Open and Candid Dialogue with the Church of England on Historical Injustices.

Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

2:00pm • Side event - Mapping Racial Justice to Build a More Just World: Getting the Lay of the Land

General Assembly, UN Headquarters

Online

South Visitors Plaza, UN Headquarters

1:15pm • Special event - Beats of Solidarity - Drumming for Peace and Equity

Suite #120 - 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

1:00pm • Side event - The Appropriate use of "Slavery" and "The Slave Trade" throughout the United Nations Anti-Racism mechanisms regarding reparations

The Baha’I Community Center

10:00am • Side event - Harnessing AI for Digital Economic Justice: Advancing Equity for Black Americans and the African Diaspora

630 Second Avenue

7:30pm • Side event - Pan African Roots Synergy Conversation on Land rights for Indigenous Africans

Africa Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations In New York

11:00am • Side event - Faith Perspectives on Reparatory Justice and Racial Healing

Brazil Foudation

5:00pm • Side event - The Experience of the ESG Racial Protocol and ESG Racial Equity Index in Brazilian Companies

Church Center of the United Nations

8:15am • Side event - Exploring the Models of Reparation and Restitution Drawing on Faith Resources

Church Of the Covenant

1:00pm • Side event - Building the Movement for Reparatory Justice in Health Across Global Africa

Conference Room 4, UN Headquarters

Conference room 9, UN headquarters

1:15pm • Side event - Apology and Repair; how descendants of the enslaved and descendants of the enslavers are taking steps towards reparatory justice.

Conference room CRE, UN Headquarters

Online

Peoples Forum

4:30pm • Side event - AfroFutures Now Digital Archive Workshop

Reyna’s NYC

10:00am • Side event - Economic Power Reimagined: Black Women Entrepreneurs as Global Drivers of Inclusion and Growth

The Africa Center

5:00pm • Side event - Where Do We Go From Here? Black Women’s Leadership Across the Diaspora and the Advancement of Reparative Racial Justice Across the Nonprofit, International Development, and Philanthropic Sectors

United Nations Church Center - 2nd floor

10:00am • Side event - The Missing SDG – A Call to Restorative Racial Justice

United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 5

10:00am • Side event - Decolonization: Silent Revolution

United Nations Visitors Plaza

1:15pm • Special event - Alvin Ailey Dance Theater – Dance Workshop at the Fourth Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and the 10th Anniversary of the Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Blue Gallery, The Blue Building

2:00pm • Side event - Dialogue - Panel on Looted African Heritage Resources

Brazil Foudation

5:30pm • Side event - Anti-racist Education and the role of public policies: paths for racial equity

Church Center of the United Nations

Church Of the Covenant

1:00pm • Side event - Developing Saturday Schools for Africa and Youth of African Descent, Globally

Conference Room 4, UN Headquarters

Conference room 6 (CR6)

1:15pm • Special event - “Beyond Numbers" - Leveraging Data and Evidence to Advance Equity for People of African Descent

Conference room A, United Nations

11:30am • Side event - Afrodescendant Women and Reproductive Justice: Knowledge, Barriers, and Strategies for Health Equity in Latin America (Colombia, Brazil)

Conference room CRE, UN Headquarters

Myriad USA Office

4:00pm • Side event - Ethnocoding the Future: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Racism and Afro-descendant Rights

Online

The People's Forum

6:00pm • Side event - The challenges of developing public policies for racial justice in the face of the rise of Christian nationalism in the Americas

10:00am • Closed internal meeting

Casa Yurumein

7:00pm • Side event - Niñas y mujeres afrodescendientes. cómo garantizar tus derechos en América Latina en tiempos de retrocesos

Church Center of the United Nations

8:00am • Side event - The UN Second Decade as an Instrument for Transformative Change for Racial Justice and Equality

Conference Room 4, UN Headquarters

Conference room 6 (CR6)

1:15pm • Special event - The Role of Arts and Culture in Acknowledging the Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Supporting Afro-Descendant Communities

Conference room CRE, UN Headquarters

1:15pm • Side event - Cohering the 7 UN Mechanisms that serve People of African Descent and the role of these mechanisms in the current geopolitical and sociopolitical context: a Strategy Session

Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

10:00am • Side event - ¿De cuál justicia reparadora estamos hablando?: Hacia la construcción de caminos de equidad.

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