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Delegations called for human rights-based AI governance, safeguards against algorithmic bias, and greater participation of Africans and people of African descent in digital policy-making."},{"key":"racism-in-sport","label":"Racism in Sport","description":"Several speakers highlighted racism, hate speech, exclusion, and underrepresentation in sports, from grassroots to professional levels. They called for sports to become a space of equality and inclusion through stronger accountability, education, and protections for affected athletes and communities."},{"key":"historical-truth","label":"Historical Truth, Education and Memorialization","description":"Speakers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth-telling about colonialism and enslavement through education, decolonized curricula, memorials, museums, public apologies, and recognition of historical harms. This was presented as essential both for repairing past wrongs and for countering present-day racist narratives."},{"key":"reparatory-justice","label":"Reparatory Justice","description":"A central theme was the call for reparations and broader reparatory justice for slavery, the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, colonialism, and their continuing harms. Speakers emphasized apologies, restitution, compensation, institutional reform, and community-led processes as obligations grounded in human rights law rather than charity."},{"key":"ddpa-implementation","label":"Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Anti-Racism Frameworks","description":"Numerous statements referred to implementing the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, ICERD, the Second International Decade for People of African Descent, and related UN mechanisms. Speakers discussed strengthening international legal standards, monitoring, and political commitment to make anti-racism commitments effective in practice."},{"key":"community-participation","label":"Participation of Affected Communities and Civil Society","description":"A recurring theme was that anti-racism and reparatory justice policies must be shaped with the meaningful participation of affected communities, especially Africans and people of African descent. Speakers underlined consultation, representation, protection of human rights defenders, and collaboration with civil society as necessary for legitimate and effective action."},{"key":"criminal-justice-racism","label":"Racism in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement","description":"Many interventions focused on systemic racism in policing, courts, detention, and sentencing, especially against Africans and people of African descent. Recurrent issues included racial profiling, unequal access to fair trial rights, overrepresentation in prisons, police accountability, and the need for structural reform."},{"key":"development-climate-justice","label":"Development, Debt and Climate Justice","description":"Many interventions linked racial justice to structural economic exclusion, underdevelopment, debt burdens, and climate vulnerability rooted in colonial histories. Speakers argued that reparatory justice must also address global economic inequalities, climate resilience, and development reform affecting Africa, the Caribbean, and diaspora communities."}]}}