A/78/306 2022. 7 Part of the mandate of the Forum is to contribute to the elaboration of a United Nations declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent. In addition, the Forum is to contribute to the full political, economic and social inclusion of people of African descent. The second session of the Forum was held in New York from 30 May to 2 June 2023 as part of a global consultative process and focused on five themes, namely global reparatory justice; pan-Africanism for dignity, justice and peace; transnational migration; a data driven and evidence-based approach to recognizing and addressing systemic and structural racism; and health, well-being and intergenerational trauma. 8 3. Roma rights 30. In September 2022, OHCHR, in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence and civil society partners, organized an international stocktaking round table on the theme “Roma and memorialization: advancing recognition and remedy for the dark chapters of the Romani 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 the structural racism that affected Roma, such as the Roma holocaust, slavery, sterilization of Romani women and other racial and anti-Gypsy persecution, as well as to consider the impact of such actions on the present. Participants in the round -table event explored how the legacies of structural racism against Roma were obstacles to the right to know and the right to truth and justice o f Roma. 9 4. Religious or belief minorities 31. In October 2022, OHCHR organized a one-week series of peer-to-peer seminars on the interaction between religion, belief and human rights, taking stock of the implementation of the Rabat Plan of Action and the Beirut Declaration and its 18 Commitments on Faith for Rights. The seminar also established a network of peerto-peer learning facilitators. In December 2022, OHCHR and the Gandhi-King Global Academy launched an online course on the theme “Religions, beliefs, and human Rights: a ‘Faith for Rights’ approach”, 10 addressing the role of religious and faithbased actors in promoting human rights and the ways that the intersection of religion and human rights can facilitate sustainable peace. The self-paced online course was moderated by the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and included modules contributed by the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, United Nations treaty body members and faith-based actors. 32. A series of monthly events, including on the rights of religio us or belief minorities, were led in turn by the United States Institute of Peace, Religions for Peace, University for Peace and OHCHR facilitators. The events were organized as part of the celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration and t he seventyfifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and were aimed at creating a community of practice and peer-to-peer learning with a view to promoting the universality and indivisibility of all human rights. __________________ 7 8 9 10 8/17 See www.ohchr.org/en/events/forums/2022/1st-session-permanent-forum-people-african-descent. See www.ohchr.org/en/events/sessions/2023/second-session-permanent-forum-people-africandescent. Further information is available at www.ohchr.org/en/minorities/advancing-roma-inclusion. See www.usip.org/academy/catalog/religions-beliefs-and-human-rights-faith-rights-approach. 23-15674