The International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) 2015-2024 was launched at United Nations Headquarters, New York in September 2014, by representatives of UN member states, international civil society and other stakeholders. This report briefly summarizes achievements made in the UN OHCHR Region of Europe, Central Asia, and North America, during the first five years of the decade, despite global challenges of fiscal austerity and rising nationalist populism faced by the African diaspora.