2011 UN International Day for Elimination of All Forms of Racism - Afrika International P

April 4, 2011 - PRLog -- FOR URGENT RELEASE
21st March 2011

COUNCIL FOR AFRIKA INTERNATIONAL welcomes the United Nation’s Declaration of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent but cautions that it has come rather late and unless an urgent suite of creative, innovative, unorthodox action-backed paradigms are taken to comprehensively and irreversibly eradicate discrimination faced by persons of African ancestry and the African Continent, the entrenched African Holocaust will continue. To substantiate the declaration, Council for Afrika International advocates for the UN’s speedy, conscientious, formal Recognition and Action to remedy Afrophobia, Security Council Permanent Membership and Veto, Supremacist Black and White Racial Hierarchical Construct, Grotesque Economic Conundrum, African Holocaust and Reconstructive Reparations through a 21st Century ‘Marshal Plan’ for Africa. In furtherance, Council for Afrika International advises the UN to extend the stated limited scope of the theme of the declaration to encapsulate the ‘interests of the African Continent’ towards an appropriate holistic paradigm model, without delay.

According to Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the Council for Afrika International, “Once again the silence on the radar of some major international human rights agencies on the significance of the International Day of Eradication of Racism and the UN Declaration of 2011 as International Year for Persons of African Ancestry is telling indeed. We are cautiously optimistic about this declaration, given the record of the United Nations in not responding urgently to matters that affect Global Africans and the African Continent. Neither was its predecessor League of Nations under which Africans and the African Continent suffered some of the grotesque injustices and inhumanities in human history. The current state of the African Continent and the conditions of majority Africans bear excellent testimony to centuries old entrenched injustices, which must be eradicated. If the UN is serious about this declaration, it must be seen to rapidly mobilize the oft-cited international community to end the causes of poverty, disease, record capital flight, discrimination, exclusion and marginalization of all forms against Africa and Global Africans, which are the greatest killers of Africans, the same way that it has done in other matters.  That is why the Council for Afrika International, amongst others,  proactively advocates for a comprehensive radical overhaul of the UN system, to transform it into a responsive and inclusive international agency that reflects the principle of equality, the reality of globalised ‘one’ world, global citizenship and global citizenship rights i.e. a proper fit for the claim of ‘international community’. 2011 is a golden opportunity for the UN to prove that is either friend or foe of Global Africans and the African Continent – there is no obfuscation of this subject matter of conscience, equality and justice.

“A relevant and classical example of the UN tradition’s [including the League of Nations] insensitivity to injustices against Africa and Africans is the length of time it took for different stages of the African Holocaust to be abolished - notably the Trans-Atlantic Trade, colonialism and apartheid. South African Apartheid was first registered at the UN for consideration as a crime against humanity in July 1948, and yet it was not until the 1977 protocol, after 30 years of bloodshed before the UN accepted apartheid as a crime against humanity, after which it took some two decades for apartheid to be overthrown in South Africa in 1994, after multi-party elections which was won by the ANC with the release of Nelson Mandela from 27 years of incarceration on the notorious Roben Island. It was during oppressive dictatorial apartheid regime, on 21st March 1960 that the Sharpeville Massacre happened in South Africa in which 69 unarmed Africans were brutally and cold-bloodedly murdered in their own homeland - by racist European South African Settler regime. Even then, took the UN another 9 years i.e. nearly a decade of so much suffering for the UN General Assembly to declare 21st March as an International Day for Elimination of All Form of Racial Discrimination. The records show an international regime de-sensitized towards the brutal oppression, murder and suffering of the African people as well as establish a perspective of entrenched anti-Africanism. Similarly, it has taken the UN over 60 years to find it expedient to proclaim an International Year for Persons of African Descent / Ancestry.

“The context is for the United Nations, European Union, Organisation of American States and all regional bodies to be reminded of what Africa is and its significant contribution to human civilization. Africa is the second largest continent in the world, with over 1billion people of the world’s population excluding Diaspora Africans estimated at another 1biliion of 6 billion global population.

“Afrika International suggests that the United Nations adds the phrase ‘Interests of the African Continent’ to the theme of the International Year for People of African Ancestry. We consider the interests of People of African Ancestry and the African Continent as mutually inclusive and in-exclusive i.e. reference of origin or ancestry. Similarly, Afrika International requests that the United Nations restructures the designation of the Year ‘International Year for PROTECTION of People of African Ancestry and Interests of the African Continent.’
“Council for Afrika International notes that there are no clear measurable outcomes to optimize the opportunities that the year presents in terminating the hardships encountered by the global community of Africans, nor the vortex of blight that is enforced on the African Continent.

“Below, Afrika International presents a resume sensible actions to oxygenate and catalyze African Justice, Liberation, Freedom and Equality that bring meaning, immediacy and substance to the Declaration of 2011 as the ‘International Year for Persons of African Ancestry’ even as the theme stands at present.

“Council for Afrika International demands formal United Nations Recognition of:
1- Afrophobia to reflect the reality of distinct hatred, fear and discrimination against persons of African Ancestry and the interests of the African Continent and to support the ongoing campaign against it.
2- Permanent African Union Membership with Veto at the United Nations Security Council. African citizens fought in both two World Wars and Africa has contributed continuously to the Global Commonwealth.
3- Abolition of the Black and White Supremacist Racial Hierarchy Framework and its Replacement with a more Ethical Human Equality Reference Framework. Afrophobia is further reflected in the existing and widely-applied black and white racist framework that is used to monitor and collect ethnic data which is at best an incoherent mixture of geographical and ethnic labels.  
4- The Reality of the African Holocaust, Practical Measures for its Denouncement and Abolishment. A holocaust is a great destruction or loss of life. The African Holocaust was unleashed ever since foreign invasions of the African Continent centuries ago.
5- The Denouncement of and Radical Measures to eliminate the Grotesque African Economic Conundrum that has blighted the African people for far too long i.e. richly resource-endowed but abjectly impoverished syndrome including record annual $1.06 Trillion finance capital flight out of Africa.
6- The Urgent Need of Reparations to Right the Wrongs of Colonialism and Neocolonialism i.e. Imperialism by funding the Restoration and Construction of Africa.

“These are subject matters that the Council for Afrika continues to campaign and our advocacy for the same continues until comprehensive justice is restored where all wrongs against Global Africans and the African Continent are righted.

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