CHAIR WOMAN’S SPEECH
J. Soomer
(3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent)
United Nations
✓ Focus on climate justice
✓ We need to look at the issue on reparations
✓ Discrimination must come to an end.
✓ “No one knows when Africa will rise but now is the time”
✓ We will not be quiet, we will not be invisible and we will not disappear.
✓ The diversity of the permanent forum must be kept open for all.
✓ We are not talking only in this forum but actions are needed.
✓ We must place our focus on the issues on Human Rights
