A/HRC/60/77 Advance edited version Distr.: General 19 September 2025 Original: English Human Rights Council Sixtieth session 8 September–3 October 2025 Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Principles, provisos and pathways to reparatory justice for people of African descent Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent* Summary The present document contains the report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth sessions, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 9/14 and 54/26. At its thirty-fifth session, held in New York from 2 to 6 December 2024, the Working Group focused on the theme “principles, provisos and pathways to reparatory justice for people of African descent” and held an event on 6 December entitled “Durban memoirs”. The Working Group held its thirty-sixth session in New York, from 21 to 25 April 2025. The session, including discussions with various stakeholders, was held in private. The Working Group has concluded that enslavement, the trade in enslaved persons, including the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, colonialism and other serious human rights violations inflicted on Africans and people of African descent need reparatory justice. This should include restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition and consider each historical and country context. The Working Group makes recommendations to advance the pursuit of reparatory justice, notably the recognition by the United Nations of the principle of reparations for enslavement and the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans as a norm of international law and the integration of reparatory justice into the implementation of the Second International Decade for People of African Descent. * The present report was submitted to the conference services for processing after the deadline so as to include the most recent information.