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International Affairs
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| Reparation Models JL-NSCS Walkathon Information |
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N'COBRA primary program focuses on obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States. However, it understands that it is a part of the international movement for reparations. N'COBRA International Affairs Commission (NIAC) is that arm of N'COBRA that works closely with Africans, African descendants and supporters of reparations for Africans and African descendants throughout the world. Under its leadership N'COBRA members were very active during the preparatory process for the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and the Non-Governmental Organization Forum and government conference held in Durban, South Africa August 28-September 8, 2001. Members were also active in the African and African Descendants Caucus that was formed during the WCAR preparatory process and continues to work on reparations internationally. NIAC understands the connection among the status of Africans and African descendants in the United States, throughout the Diaspora, Africans on the Continent and Africa. N'COBRA and NIAC acknowledge that the success of the movement for reparations for Africans anywhere advances the movement for reparations for Africans and African descendants everywhere. The commission's work also includes travel to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and to Peru with AFRE and Silis Muhammad; and to all of the preparatory conferences leading up to the World Conference Against Racism; to Barbados, Suriname in South America, and the Netherlands with the Global Afrikan Congress family, and to Dimona, North East Africa to be with our Hebrew Israelite repatriated family. |
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NIAC's vision |
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| It has been four years since
victory in Durban, South Africa at the 2001 World Conference Against
Racism. It was a time when African nations and African people
throughout the Diaspora came together to talk about slavery,
colonialism, and reparations. It is time to come together again and
pick up the unfinished business of Durban. Today our must focus must be on
Reparations, and the Durban Program of Action. We must ensure
that all of the African Diaspora and African Governments come together
to reexamine that document to see where
we are and where we are going with its implementation. And we
must take care of some unfinished business in addressing repatriation,
reconciliation issues with our Brothers and Sisters in Africa and that
which transforms us into a cooperating and internationally respected
people. NIAC is working with international groups in organizing forums to address these issues. An immediate focus of NIAC and its co-convenors at this time is the Ghana Pan-African Reparations Conference, scheduled for July 22- August 3, 2006 in Ghana. We are very excited and eagerly anticipating that this conference with participation from Africans throughout the world will not only continue and enhance the process of our transformation, but will help shape the conversation and activities, as the British Empire plans to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade (Holocaust of Enslavement). Please click on the "Ghana Conference" link to the left for further information. |
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