A/HRC/51/54 and Ms. Namakula spoke at an event entitled “Amplifying global Black narratives: a global African family reunion”, hosted by the Most Influential People of African Descent online from 1 to 4 October 2021. Ms. Day participated in academic activities in the United States with the programme of advanced studies on human rights and humanitarian law of the American University Washington College of Law (June 2022), Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania (February 2022), the Police Violence Symposium at Dartmouth College (April 2022) and the symposium held by Touro Law School on the theme “Globalism and restorative justice” on 16 February 2022. On behalf of the Working Group, Ms. Day provided a written submission to the hearing by the Congress of the United States on the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act in the United States and gave a written contribution to the research on the theme “Reflections on the name of Palais Wilson” undertaken by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. On 15 October 2021, Ms. Day and Ms. Namakula participated in a webinar on the theme “Racism and Afrophobia”, which preceded the Africa and African Diaspora Conference convened by the World Council of Churches; and on 12 and 13 May 2022, Ms. Day and Ms. Reynolds participated in the Africa-African DiasporaCaribbean Community (CARICOM) dialogue on recognition, justice and development on the theme “Shaping the present for the future we want”, hosted by UNFPA and the University of the West Indies. 16. In cooperation with the International Human Rights Clinic at Rutgers University in the United States, the Working Group made an amicus submission to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on voting rights for people who are incarcerated. Ms. Namakula and Ms. Reynolds met with the Organization of American States Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons of African Descent and against Racial Discrimination, Margarette May Macaulay, on 30 May 2022. Ms. Namakula and Ms. Reynolds also met with the CARICOM Reparations Commission to discuss technical cooperation in the region. On 29 April 2022, Ms. Reynolds made a presentation on Racial Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of New Orleans and, on 22 November 2021, she participated in a webinar on the theme “Debt cancellation as anti-racism in times of Black Lives Matter protests”, organized by the World Council of Churches. On 27 June 2022, Ms. Namakula participated in a side event of the fiftieth session of the Human Rights Council to mark World Drug Day and, on 26 July 2022, she participated in an event to mark International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day. Members of the Working Group also participated in a side event at the Civil Society 20 summit and a meeting with the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations at its summer school, among others. The Working Group also offered expert analysis and a report on a case in Switzerland of particular relevance to several special procedure mandate holders. Throughout the year, the Working Group members gave individual interviews to the media. IV. Summary of deliberations Thematic analysis: children of African descent 17. The Working Group devoted its thirtieth session to exploring human rights through the racial discrimination and inequality faced by children of African descent in all areas of life, including administration of justice, law enforcement, education, health, familyregulation systems, and development, as well as redress for legacies of enslavement, colonialism and racial segregation. 18. The first thematic panel of the session was on the theme “Safeguarding the health and well-being of children of African descent”. In her introductory remarks, the Chair of the Working Group highlighted that discussions on health came first strategically, because the health of children was everything. It was one of the three components of the human development index and an anchor for all other rights. The panel was chaired by a member of the Working Group, Sushil Raj. He noted that international human rights standards concerning the right to survive and develop and the right to the highest attainable standards of health articulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child countered observations of the Working Group in practice. Multiple and intersecting forms of structural racism created 5