A/HRC/52/53 racism proposals by representatives of African descent in the Bogotá City Council. From April to June 2022, the office provided advice and technical assistance to Afro-descendant communities affected by violence associated with drug trafficking and participated in processes of consultation between organizations of people of African descent and government entities. In August 2022, the office also assisted in developing a proposal on the rights of the Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero communities, with delegates from 18 of the organizations that form the National Afro-Colombian Peace Council. F. Human rights situation of Roma communities 44. In Serbia, OHCHR supported the State authorities in preparing for the 2022 census with data from a recent OHCHR mapping of Roma settlements that were substandard. In early 2022, OHCHR, in collaboration with the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit of the Government of Serbia and the Association of Coordinators for Roma Issues, jointly developed sustainable models for access to safe water, sanitation and electricity for Roma living in substandard settlements. It is expected that those models should assist nearly 168,000 Roma still living in substandard settlements in deplorable conditions without basic infrastructure, such as access to electricity, safe drinking water and sanitation. 45. In the Republic of Moldova, OHCHR completed an 18-month human rights capacitybuilding programme for 22 human rights activists, including 8 members of the Roma community and representatives of vulnerable groups from the Transnistria region. OHCHR also supported the participants’ advocacy and human rights awareness-raising activities. As a result, Roma human rights activists conducted human rights training and informational sessions for 115 Roma. In May 2022, the Office, in cooperation with the national association of Roma mediators, provided training to 32 Roma community mediators. The training included content on international and national human rights standards; the protection of minorities; access to public services; issues pertaining to documentation for Roma; and remedies for discrimination targeting Roma people. 46. In May 2022, the OHCHR Regional Office for Europe participated in Romani Week 2022, which encompassed a variety of events organized by the European Parliament to discuss policies for the equality and inclusion of Roma people in Europe. At the events, OHCHR called for a human rights approach to Roma policies and strategies that required a renewed political commitment at the highest level, effective Roma participation and a comprehensive and coordinated engagement between the regional, national and local levels. OHCHR also referred to the agenda towards transformative change for racial justice and equality, set out by the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a possible inspiration for tackling anti-Gypsyism. 47. In July 2022, OHCHR organized a training session in the Republic of Moldova on the role of Roma community mediators in preventing and tackling human trafficking among Roma refugees; 25 managers and social workers from refugee accommodation centres participated. Since February 2022, OHCHR has mainstreamed human rights and has carried out regular monitoring trips to border areas and refugee accommodation centres, in particular those with a high concentration of Roma, and participated in numerous coordination forums, including the task force on Roma refugees. In September 2022, OHCHR launched a study to assess the human rights situation of Roma, including Roma refugees fleeing from the armed conflict in Ukraine, and the underlying causes that limit their access to human rights. 48. Also in September 2022, OHCHR, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of nonrecurrence organized an international round table entitled “Roma and memorialization: advancing recognition and remedy for the dark chapters of the past and their impact on the present”. The purpose of the event was to advance recognition and memorialization of the problematic chapters of Romani history and structural racism, such as the Roma holocaust, slavery, sterilization of Romani women, and other racial and anti-Gypsy persecution, as well as their impact on the present. Participants in the round-table event explored how the legacies 10 GE.22-29200