The Year aims at strengthening national actions and regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture.

This International Year is coordinated by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights.

• Full text of the Resolution
• Visit the official Website of the Year

Activities related to this celabration (to be regularly updated)

• 7th International African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 22-24 September 2011

• Harriet Tubman Summer Institute on Slavery, Memory and Citizenship, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21-27 August 2011 

• Harriet Tubman Student Summer Programme 2011 on "Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies", 4- 15 July 2011, York University, Canada

• Interregional Philosophical Dialogue between Africa and the Americas – “Africa and its Diaspora” Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 18-20 April 2011
• Teachers talking about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, New York, 23 March 2011
• Celabration of the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UNESCO Headquarters, 21 March 2011
• Thematic discussion on racial discrimination against People of African descent on the theme “Racial Discrimination against People of African Descent”, Geneva, 7 March 2011
• Meeting of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, Bogota, 28 Feb.- 3 March 2011

• Launching of the Year 2011, on December 10, 2010 (video)
• UN Information Centre (article in French)
• Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
• UNDP: promoting social inclusion of people of African descent
• Slave Routes. A Global Vision: Highlighting the African presence and contribution