Making the Case for Recognition of a Distinct Afrikan Heritage Community for National Self-Determination in the UK: Prospects and Progress will be the presentation made by PARCOE Co-Vice Chairs, Kofi Mawuli Klu and Esther Stanford-Xosei at the forthcoming Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) meeting. Date: Friday, 30th January 2015 Time: 7.15PM for a prompt start @ 7.30pm Venue: 365 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DA (over from the police station on the corner of Gresham Road and Brixton Road) “In proclaiming this Decade, the international community is recognising that people of African descent represent a distinct group whose human rights must be promoted and protected”. These were the recent words of UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri in announcing the commencement of the International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD), proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 68/237, to be observed from 2015 to 2024. Prior to this proclamation, the notion of people of Afrikan heritage being one nation have abounded in the Garvey, other ‘Back to Africa’, Rastafari and Pan-Afrikan movements. Rather than just being an idea or aspiration, this session will explore the decolonisation imperative, practical benefits and steps to people of Afrikan heritage, currently domiciled in the UK, being recognised by states and civil society as a distinct community, who have the right to access our full individual and collective rights on terms of national- determination. These rights transcending individual community member’s rights to ‘equality’ and ‘to be free from discrimination’; to availing ourselves of the right to autonomy and ‘equal status’, with all other communities and peoples, as an Afrikan Heritage Community for National Self-Determination (AHC-NSD), which is part of the Global Afrikan Nation-in-Formation. Brother Kofi and Sister Esther will elaborate on these and other issues including, work being done to gain official recognition of the AHC-NSD; why it is an imperative and what the benefits for all people of Afrikan heritage (who currently belong to differing existing ethnicities/nationalities) are. https://youtube/watch?v=489rcX2lJLE&feature=youtu.be Presenters: Sis Esther Stanford-Xosei is a highly acclaimed Jurisconsult and Reparationist. She serves as the Co-Vice Chair of the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE) and the Co-Chair of the interim National Organising Committee of the interim National Afrikan Peoples Parliament (iNAPP). Esther is currently conducting PhD research at the University of Chichester on the historical trajectory and outcomes of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) based in the UK. Bro Kofi Mawuli Klu is Chief Executive Commissioner of PANAFRIINDABA, a grassroots Pan-African Community Advocacy, Research and Think Tank based in London, UK and Accra, Ghana. He is also co-Vice Chair, Pan-Afrikan Reparation Coalition in Europe (PARCOE) in London, Joint Co-ordinator of the Global Justice Forum based in London and a member as well as legal adviser of the Interim-National Peoples Parliament (iNAPP).
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