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A/HRC/53/43: Panel discussion on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

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At its fifty-first session, the Human Rights Council held, pursuant to Council resolution 18/8, its annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Pursuant to Council resolution 48/11, the panel discussion focused on the impact of social and economic recovery plans in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on Indigenous Peoples, with a special focus on food security. The summary of the discussion, contained in the present report, is being submitted in accordance with Council resolution 48/11.

Choosing love and finding power in Blackness

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Monique Rodrigues do Prado in front of the Broken Chair sculpture and flags at Palais des Nations, UN headquarters in Geneva, December 2022. © Monique Rodrigues do Prado
Monique Rodrigues do Prado, former UN Fellow of African descent, has adopted love as a spiritual practice to achieve equality and dignity for Afro-Brazilians. “My Blackness becomes more powerful once we are together,” she says.

Stories on racial justice give power of memory to the slain

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Portrait of Léonard Cortana wearing a blue chequered shirt © Leonard Cortana
Former UN Fellow of African descent, Léonard Cortana, works to memorialize and perpetuate the legacies of assassinated human rights defenders’ fight for racial justice. “The power we can give them is to remember their intellectual contribution - not necessarily print their faces on a t-shirt,” he said.