Introduction Attorney KINDRED Afro-Americas Alliance Thank You I wish to thank my colleagues, my Brothers and Sisters from for their interventions: and Madame Independent Expert for the opportunity to present mine. Intervention: Land and Security of Land Rights and Property Rights Thesis  Afrodescendants or Blacks in the Diaspora are rapidly becoming a landless people, removing even the possibility of economic empowerment and advancement or effective participation in economic life because land is the single greatest wealth and asset builder.  Black people in the Diaspora or Afrodescendants are experiencing massive loss of land and property owned individually and collectively. Methods of Dispossession  Observed as a Diasporic phenomenon, we see a wide spread process of systemic Black disenfranchisement: Where through multi-pronged attacks and State-executed and supported practices: Afrodescendants are Pushed off of/forcibly displaced from our traditional lands and out of our historic communities including through:  Forcible, coercive means [threats, physical violence or through divide and conquer methods including exploitive-financial inducement ]  Fraud [manipulation]   Economic expulsion [being priced out of our own communities through property tax regimes] Commercial and residential Development projects/extractive industries Unsustainable Tourism     Predatory lending schemes: State negligence or neglect regarding its duty to (regulate) protect vulnerable populations from being preyed upon, such as during the housing-banking meltdown or crisis in the United States A frequent characteristics of some of these communities is Over- and abusive policing practice; And construction of new, large capacity prisons and jails (literally being removed from communities and warehoused through the criminal justice and judiciary mechanism) Meanwhile, upon their release from such facilities, ex-felons do not qualify for housing and dozens of employment classifications = effecting socio-economic exclusion or participation in economic life. Another frequent characteristics of some of these communities in the process of being Removed is an alarming rise in State intervention in family households where Black children are being removed to State custody at 2 and 3 times the rate of other races and ethnic groups. It is not mere coincidence that these numbers are highest in communities that experience the greatest Black dispossession of land and property. These children