The attached written submission was made  to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), with reference to Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/47/21 of 13 July 2021, entitled “Promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers through transformative change for racial justice and equality”.  In that regard, the OHCHR refers Res. A/HRC/47/53 and its accompanying conference room paper A/HRC/47/CRP.1.

"Operative paragraph 15 of Human Rights Council resolution 47/21 requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a written report, on an annual basis, and to present it to the Human Rights Council, starting from its fifty-first session, scheduled to take place in September 2022. In order to inform the preparation of this latest report,  information concerning “systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, to contribute to accountability and redress,” in line with operative paragraph 14 of the aforementioned resolution has been gathered by OHCHR. Further, as provided by operative paragraph 14, information regarding “further action [taken] globally towards transformative change for racial justice and equality” has also been requested for inclusion in OHCHR's forthcoming report.

Reference to the Four-Point Agenda Towards Transformative Change for Racial Justice and Equality, contained in the Annex of the High Commissioner’s report A/HRC/47/53 was encouraged, as well as an update with regard to the implementation of the 20 recommendations organised under the four points of the Agenda Towards Transformative Change. In particular, information concerning laws, regulations, policies and all other relevant measures, as well as promising practices, initiatives, challenges and lessons learned was sought, in addition to information regarding the situation and perspectives of women and children of African descent, and of African women and children, as well as other relevant gender dimensions and intersectional analyses.

Background 

“School to prison pipelines” perpetuate racist White supremacist intergenerational criminalization and exclusion of Afrikans (Africans and people of African descent) from universal human rights. For example,
“Over the last three decades, research has shown that  even when controlling for income level, Black students were four times more likely to be suspended than their white peers during the 2017-18 academic year (They) are also more likely to attend schools with law enforcement and significant security measures on campus, and were twice as likely to be referred or arrested than their white peers in 2018-19 (...) the school-to-prison pipeline such disproportionality begets—has been attributed to biases, implicit or otherwise, that school officials may carry into the schoolhouse” (State of California 2021, p.215- 216).
 
School to prison pipelines are also found in Europe.  
“Adults and children of African descent are increasingly vulnerable when held in police custody, with numerous incidents of violence and deaths recorded, having regard to the routine use of racial profiling, discriminatory stop‑and‑search practices and surveillance in the context of abuse of power in law enforcement, crime prevention, counter-terrorism measures, or immigration control” (European Parliament, 2019).
According to a report broadcast Black Talk Radio Network on 20 March 2022, an Afrikan youth “Child Q” was subjected to an unjustified and traumatising intimate strip-search by the UK’s Metropolitan Police in 2020, following schoolteachers’ allegations that she smelt of cannabis, and was suspected to be carrying drugs. The International Decade for people of African Descent (IDPAD)’s thematic objectives of recognition, justice, and development, can be employed to advocate remedies and redress as interventions to achieve reparatory justice where White supremacist hegemony persists.