A/HRC/51/54 massacres of people of African descent, including in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, and reparations. 53. The seventh panel, on the theme “Repairing the world for the future of children of African descent”, was chaired by the Vice-Chair of the Working Group. In her introduction, the Chair of the Working Group stressed that children of African of descent were the opportunity for humanity to make amends. The Vice-Chair said that a duty of care to future generations existed to disrupt the systems and structures that perpetuated racial discrimination and maintained the status quo ante. Historical and contemporary wrongs – enslavement, colonization, segregation, discrimination resulting in dehumanization, degradation and disadvantage – were repeatedly meted out on Africans and people of African descent with severe cumulative effect. Reparatory justice was a moral imperative that had civil, political, economic, social and cultural ramifications. 54. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State, United States, had led the passage of a reparations bill in California, United States, in 2020. The bill had established a task force to study reparations, educate the public and develop proposals. She referred to the racist attack in Buffalo in the State of New York, United States, as a reminder that, despite arriving in the United States over 400 years ago, people of African descent were still seen as intruders trying to displace others, as if they had no independent place in America. She noted that it would take a lot to repair the damage and work to bring them to their rightful position of parity with those with privileged European heritage who had benefited from the current system. 55. Breanna Moore, of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, discussed reparations through the trajectories of the white and Black descendants of people who had lived historically on the same plantation in the southern United States. She presented original archival and oral history research into her family over five generations, from enslavement to the present. She set that history in contrast to the fortune and wealth-building of her family’s enslavers, which had included two men who received medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in the nineteenth century. 56. Olufemi O. Taiwo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, United States, and author of Reconsidering Reparations, argued for a constructive view of reparations, linking reparations to climate justice and the dismantling of the extractivist and exploitative legacies of colonialism and the triangular trade. He referenced the claims, in his recent book, that reparations should be viewed as a world-making project focused on reconstructing the economic and political system to arrive at a more just society, including through the redistribution of wealth and power. 57. During the discussion, Ms. Day confirmed that the Working Group had endorsed the CARICOM 10-point plan for reparatory justice, a comprehensive approach to the financial, development and psychological harms relating to colonialism, the trade and trafficking in enslaved Africans, and ongoing systemic racism. Ms. Shepherd called for the implementation of the programme of activities of the International Decade for People of African Descent. Other speakers referenced the need for reparations to allow children to dream and repair the psychosocial impact to the spirit and mindset of people of African descent. V. Conclusions and recommendations 58. The thirtieth session of the Working Group was its first public session held outside of Geneva, and its first in-person session since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It thanks Member States, representatives of international organizations and civil society for their active participation. A. Conclusions 59. The Working Group remains outraged at continued incidents of racially motivated violence against people of African descent. It demands accountability and 13