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THE London Assembly has passed a landmark motion agreeing to adopt the United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent.
The United Nations General Assembly declared the decade, running from 2015–24, to recognise that people of African descent represent a distinct group whose human rights must be promoted and protected.
City Hall agreed on Thursday to call for the capital’s Mayor Sadiq Khan to recognise and formally celebrate the initiative and implement its policies.
The colonial mindset behind the governance of the UN is the reason for its inertia when it comes to conflict resolution, argues ROGER McKENZIE – but can China’s Global Governance Initiative point in a new direction of global equality?
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS