A/HRC/33/61 a high concentration of power and wealth. She presented a number of recommendations regarding development strategies for people of African descent living in the Black Belt, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including providing entrepreneurship education, helping a new generation of farmers of African descent to acquire property in the region, building capacity and providing microfinancing for community-based organizations, among others. 33. Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, said in his videotaped message that the International Decade represented an opportunity for recognition, justice and development for people of African descent, and for promoting their full inclusion in all aspects of society. He invited all Governments in the region, as well as entrepreneurs and civil society, to persevere together in that undertaking. 34. The presentations were followed by an interactive session during which Mr. Sunga asked the panellists to elaborate more on the linkages between development and justice. The representative of South Africa enquired about the Working Group’s engagement with United Nations agencies working on development, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in addition to engagement in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Mr. Balcerzak replied that the Working Group had just began its work with financial and development institutions and would take into account the suggestions made. 35. A special panel discussion was held to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, of which the Durban Declaration had been an outcome, delivered her statement through a videotaped message. Ms. Robinson said that one of the positive outcomes of the World Conference against Racism had been the establishment of the Working Group in 2002 by the Human Rights Commission. She congratulated the Working Group on its valuable reports over the years and drew its attention to the issue of attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants arriving in Europe, as well as the racist language increasingly being used by some political parties in Europe. She added that hate speech, rooted in hostility to ethnic, religious and cultural diversity, was being used not only by extremist groups but also by politicians from across the political spectrum, and in social media. She hoped that the Working Group would use its voice to reassert the values and principles of tolerance, equality and nondiscrimination, with particular emphasis on awareness-raising and other educational initiatives aimed at countering racist messages and promoting mutual understanding. 36. Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, delivered a videotaped statement in which he said that the International Decade was an opportunity to ensure that strategies to alleviate the harm and suffering long imposed on people of African descent were long-term and sustainable. While such people were still confronting the legacy of the past in areas such as economic distribution of wealth, hostilities by police authorities and harsh judicial punishment, as well as access to education, health care and housing, the reparatory justice movement was gaining momentum with the establishment of national commissions for reparations in several countries. The movement was not simply about the empowerment of people of African descent in respect of the history they had experienced, but also about finding a new philosophy for the organization of societies and the world in order to establish social justice, moral authority and peace within the human family. 37. The Regional Coordinators also participated in the panel discussion. The representative of the European Union described how developments in the European Union 10