A/HRC/36/60 of their race or gender, were discriminated against in the assessment of their educational attainments (including certificates) and consequently were not considered in awarding employment and advancement opportunities. 30. Martin Oelz, from the International Labour Organization (ILO), highlighted the ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), which was the organization’s main instrument on the subject, along with the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). The contributions by ILO to the report on the Decade took into account the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda. The report gave an overview of the situation of persons of African descent in the world of work, and described ILO action in several areas: awareness raising, strengthening dialogue around fundamental principles and rights at work; building reliable statistics and data collection; a focus on the rural and informal economy; and building international alliances to address the situation of people of Africa descent. He concluded by providing the perspective of ILO in addressing discrimination through the Sustainable Development Goals with interventions in the following areas: improving anti-discrimination legislation, its enforcement and access to justice; addressing multiple forms of discrimination; enhancing enterprise-level policies and practices to prevent and address discrimination based on race, colour, ethnicity or other relevant grounds; encouraging policy-oriented and evidence-based research to underpin policy debates and development; promoting access to decent work in key occupations and economic sectors, including through transitions to the formal economy and universal access to a social protection floor; building broad alliances at the national, regional and international levels to promote ownership and support for diversity and rejection of racial discrimination; and ensuring that organizations of persons of Africa Descent and relevant civil society organizations could participate in follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda. 31. During the interactive session, Ms. Fanon Mendes-France asked Mr. Reid about narrating the legacy of the trade in enslaved Africans and colonialism in an accurate manner. Mr. Reid noted that quite a few Caribbean historians had spent time rewriting the history of the Caribbean; however, Eurocentric materials were still being circulated in schools. Currently, Caribbean students had to travel to the former colonial countries to access materials related to the region. The repatriation of documents was a suggested solution. Technology transfer was another suggestion related to reparations. The representative of South Africa emphasized the importance of access to education and of quality education. The representative of Cuba spoke of the importance of international cooperation, which applied to education as well. The representative of Barbados also commented on the importance of teaching about local history prior to the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans. Civil society representatives commented on the impact of litigation on the lack of funding for education, human rights education for children and the importance of the recognition of history in education. In conclusion, Mr. Reid reminded the civil society representatives to be engaged in the high-level political forum on sustainable development scheduled to take place under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council in July 2017. 32. The fourth panel focused on the topic of Goal 16 on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Mr. Gumedze stated that Goal 16 was an important tool or agent of change for advancing the mandate of the Working Group. The violence to which people of African descent were subjected was usually a component of racist crimes. One way of reducing such crimes was by improving social cohesion, especially in culturally diverse societies. For example, the Government of Belgium had created an inter-dialogue commission in 2004 with the aim of improving social cohesion in Belgium’s culturally diverse society. Mr. Gumedze gave other examples of similar measures to address access to justice for people of African descent that the Working Group had proposed following country visits. 33. Justin Hansford, of the St. Louis University School of Law, spoke about the achievements of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States as well as about continuing manifestations of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system in the country. The disproportionate impact of racial violence and police brutality on people of African descent in the United States was compounded by the fear that the new 9