A/HRC/54/71 discrimination, barriers to the right to health and due process, and enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. It has also drawn attention to the issues of enslavement and the auctioning of enslaved African migrants, forced removals of children from their parents, extrajudicial killings of children during anti-drug operations, environmental racism, reprisals against human rights defenders, attacks against leaders and communities of people of African descent, racial discrimination, xenophobia, forced eviction and the disproportionate targeting of Africans and people of African descent by State and private actors during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. 16. The Working Group has followed several emblematic cases with relevance to its mandate and has submitted or petitioned to submit amicus curiae or e xpert briefs for consideration by courts. 15 For example, on 19 November 2019, the Working Group filed an amicus curiae brief with a family court in the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the case involving Jude Kasangaki, Anita Mavita and their children discussing violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and, on the grounds of racial discrimination, of refugee law. On 15 February 2022, the Working Group filed an amicus curiae brief before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights in the matter of Rutgers Law School International Human Rights Clinic v. the United States on voting rights for incarcerated people. On 27 May 2022, the Working Group published an expert report to be filed in the criminal courts in Switzerland in the case of Brian K. v. Switzerland, discussing the ongoing role of systemic racism in decision-making within the justice system that had violated the rights of a child of African descent. On 6 December 2022, the Working Group filed an amicus curiae brief in the case Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal with the objective of contributing to the analysis of systemic racism in the criminal justice system relating to the probity and relevance of long-withheld evidence.16 The Working Group also petitioned for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in the case of B.H.K. v. Switzerland, which is currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights. B. Country visits 17. Since 2002, the Working Group has conducted 23 country visits, including 5 followup visits, at the invitation of Governments and under the terms of reference of the special procedures. The Working Group has visited Argentina, 17 Australia, 18 Belgium, 19 Brazil, 20 Canada, 21 Ecuador, 22 Germany, 23 Guyana, 24 Italy, 25 Netherlands (Kingdom of the), 26 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 GE.23-15301 See https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-african-descent/activities. See https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/racism/wgeapd/amicuscuriae/20221206-WGEPAD-Amicus-Mumia-Abu-Jamal.pdf. See A/HRC/42/59/Add.2. See https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/racism/wgeapd/2022-12-20/2022-1220-EOM-WGEPAD-Australia.pdf. See E/CN.4/2006/19/Add.1, A/HRC/42/59/Add.1 and A/HRC/42/59/Add.3. See A/HRC/27/68/Add.1. See A/HRC/36/60/Add.1. See A/HRC/13/59 and A/HRC/45/44/Add.1. See A/HRC/36/60/Add.2 and A/HRC/36/60/Add.4. See A/HRC/39/69/Add.1. See A/HRC/33/61/Add.1. See A/HRC/30/56/Add.1 and A/HRC/30/56/Add.3. 5