Barrister Alice NKOM
Alice Nkom was appointed on Wednesday as an expert of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Federico Villegas of Argentina, on Wednesday appointed Barrister Alice Angèle NKOM as an expert of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Barrister NKOM is promoted alongside four other experts from the Bahamas, China, Sweden and Colombia.
These five personalities, including the Cameroonian Barrister NKOM, are added to the five members appointed by the General Assembly on 16 December 2021. The ten-person Forum is mandated to provide expert advice and recommendations to the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations bodies, aimed at addressing the challenges resulting from racism, racial discrimination, homophobia, xenophobia and related intolerance faced by people of African descent which impede their human rights.
The Forum, which became operational on 2 August 2021 through UN General Assembly resolution 75/314, serves as a platform for improving the security, quality of life and livelihoods of people of African descent, as well as an advisory body to the Human Rights Council.
According to the UN, Alice Nkom and the other 9 experts who serve in an independent capacity and will be guided by the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent, will also consider the elaboration of a UN declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent.
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