Friday, April 17, 2026, 3 – 6 pm CEST, Geneva, Switzerland
New Future Foundation, Inc. Verda Harris-Olayinka
7th Meeting of the 5th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
Adoption of the preliminary conclusions and recommendations of the 5th Session
Presentation: Disaggregated Data
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Concept Paper - Gathering Your Disaggregated Data: A Hands-On Workshop
I am Verda Harris-Olayinka representing New Future Foundation, Inc. We recognize and acknowledge that the Kingdom of Kush has been established thirty years ago for potential African American relocation. Today, I am here to discuss disaggregated data as a potential side event, “Gathering Your Disaggregated Data: A Hands-On Workshop.”
Disaggregated Data Reports are structured to adhere to a policy-grade analytical framework that can be used to translate the POAD population estimates into actionable priorities across socioeconomic status, housing, food security, education, vocational training, with a separate health caveat. The outputs can support reparations-related analysis and compensation modeling.
The reparations-oriented priority framework for POAD should model cases from the UN PF POAD incorporating multilateral policy designs, academic research, and reparations compensation modeling. The analytical posture should be evidence-based, non-advocacy, compatible with policy, academic, and use legal standards.
The policy-oriented priority matrix should be determined on a country-by-country basis. The matrix should rank countries by reparations-relevance and not solely by moral claims. Ranking should be driven by: Absolute and proportional size of POAD population; Intensity of Structural harm; State recognition and remedial capacity. (2 minutes)
Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: Progress and challenges originated from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2023, OHCR). It developed the following framework for states and Civil Society Organizations to write these reports. Key caveats and their corresponding page numbers from this document are as follows:
p. 7 Introduction: “In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations has redoubled efforts to counteract the harmful impact on inequalities on sustainable development.”
p. 9 “to Advance Racial Equality Gathering diverse data … includes data from national and local censuses, household surveys, vital statistics, case studies…”
p. 10: “The collection and publication of information from historical sources…ground public debate in evidence and help to counteract misconceptions.”
p. 18 Employment: Employment is one indicator of the socioeconomic status of people of African descent that states should aim to capture.”
p. 19 Housing: Re: the right to adequate housing…”in countries with sizeable populations of people of African descent, POADs tended to live in geographical locations that were segregated, disadvantaged and subjected to hazards.”
p. 19 Education: “Young children of African descent disproportionately received punishments that required them to stay out of school, ultimately affecting their access to education.”
p. 20 Health: “States should aim to collect and analyse the extent to which people of African descent enjoy the right to adequate health.”
p. 20 Poverty: “Data related to poverty and income would help to illuminate the social and economic status of people of African descent.”
p.26 Participation: “In addition to involving people of African descent in data collection, States could increase the diversity of data scientists to help mitigate potential risks of data gathering, including risks related to biases in methodology designs and interpretation.”
Disaggregated Data Reports are structured to adhere to a policy-grade analytical framework that can be used to translate the POAD population estimates into actionable priorities across socioeconomic status, housing, food security, education, vocational training, with a separate health caveat. The outputs can support reparations-related analysis and compensation modeling.
Planning and Development Categories Recommended for the UN Office on Human Rights
These structures may already be laid out by the Human Rights Office.
Disaggregated planning categories are strategized and explained as follows:
1. How POAD population size translates into priority weighting
2. Global POAD priority typology (by country category)
3. Sectoral impact analysis (socioeconomics, housing, food, education, workforce)
4. Health challenges (explicitly separated)
5. Reparations compensation relevance: how this data is typically operationalized
Translating POAD Population Estimates into Priority Weighting
For reparations-adjacent and UN-style programming, absolute population size alone is insufficient. Priority is usually determined by a three-factor interaction:
The reparations-oriented priority framework for POAD should model cases from the UN PF POAD incorporating multilateral policy designs, academic research, and reparations compensation modeling. The analytical posture should be evidence-based, non-advocacy, compatible with policy, academic, and use legal standards.
The policy-oriented priority matrix should be determined on a country-by-country basis. The matrix should rank countries by reparations-relevance and not solely by moral claims. Ranking should be driven by: Absolute and proportional size of POAD population; Intensity of Structural harm; State recognition and remedial capacity. Planners are encouraged to be mindful of (p. 24) Section 3: “Respecting rights while collecting disaggregated data.”
Participation (p. 26): “Taking a participatory approach is also likely to improve the data gathering exercise, since participatory processes facilitate trust and ensure the accuracy of data collection. States should include people of African descent in all stages of data-gathering exercises, including needs assessment, data gathering, data analysis, interpretation and dissemination.” In adherence to the participation descriptive, multi-cultural Civil Service Organization team from various sectors should ideally have input in the five disaggregated planning categories mentioned above.
Disaggregated Data: Justifications for African American Reparations
United Nations Structured Overview on People of African Descent in the USA
This “United Nations Structured Overview on People of African Descent” is written in a language of UN economic development reparations discourse justified by their call for disaggregated data. The disaggregated data requirements is a sub-section of a detailed analysis of POAD in the diaspora with documented evidence responding to the request and requirements that would justify the final resolution of Reparatory Justice in the USA.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Cross-Hatched and Consolidated with the FAU Mending Goals™ (MG)
The UN Sustainable Development Goals have been cross-hatched and consolidated with the Friends of the African Union Mending Goals. Members of the Friends of the African Union (FAU) under the Chairmanship of Hershel Daniels, Jr. executed Qualitative Methods to critique and refine UN SDG objectives as they addressed the realities of life in the United States. The team fused the 17 SDGs into 9 “Mending Goals” to address systemic challenges and promote global sustainable development.
Friends of the African Union proposal was submitted to the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent 35th Session on December 2 – 6, 2024 about Principles, Provisos and Pathways to Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent. Friends of the African Union (FAU) will use the Mending Goals™ framework in its Global Compact for Democracy with a #Just Economy to address the enslavement, trafficking, colonization, torture and segregation of Africans and people of African descent for the last four centuries.
“The Mending Goals™ (MGs) represent a comprehensive framework designed to address systemic challenges and promote sustainable development. Each goal focuses on dismantling barriers and fostering equitable access to resources, education, and opportunities for all. By undertaking “healing actions” through various “projects” that emphasize collaboration, empowerment, and sustainability, the Mending Goals™ aim to create a resilient and inclusive society.
The MGs aim to foster inclusion and provide access to essential resources for the Global African Community to achieve an ambitious set of objectives that expand upon the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The MGs seek to tackle systemic social injustices, xenophobia, economic oppression, and other imbalances comprehensively, recognizing that the SDGs often fail to engage with these critical issues. More than merely recognizing these challenges, the Mending Goals aim to dismantle historic systemic barriers, fostering a more inclusive and equitable society characterized by a #JustEconomy. By addressing the unmet Hierarchy of Needs, the MGs aspire to lay a foundation that empowers individuals, enhances community resilience, and promotes sustainable progress toward a future defined by equality and prosperity.” (FAU)
The Mending Goal elaboration and perceived dilemma with SDG determinants may have been subtly triggered by the fact that even at the roll-out of a second Decade of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, no authoritative UN dataset currently publishes harmonized POAD percentages for all countries. In all of the UN Reports there is no social indicator demographic analysis of “Race” or “Ethnicity” beyond the 2030 Agenda objective. The Mending Goal elaboration and perceived dilemma with SDG determinants may have been subtly triggered by the fact that even at the roll-out of a second Decade of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, No authoritative UN dataset currently publishes harmonized POAD percentages for all countries. In all of the UN Reports there is no social indicator demographic analysis of “Race” or “Ethnicity” beyond the 2030 Agenda objective. No Working Group at any level has reported on the social demographic status that incorporates People of African Descent in their local or Global data sets.”
As a result, I recommend that the Human Rights Office consider the development of a baseline of population data as a goal for the 2nd UN Decade on People of African Descent as a foundation for future comparisons of data in the African diaspora. The UN Economic Commission for Europe created the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics that was adopted and updated in 2017 by the United Nations Statistical Commission for a global level. Two key principles can be applied to this case:
(1) Relevance, impartiality and equal access: Official statistics provide an indispensable element in the information system of a democratic society, serving the government, the economy and the public with data about the economic, demographic, social and environmental situation. To this end, official statistics that meet the test of practical utility are to be compiled and made available on an impartial basis by official statistical agencies to honour citizens’ entitlement to public information.
(3) Accountability and Transparency: To facilitate a correct interpretation of the data, the statistical agencies are to present information according to scientific standards on the sources, methods and procedures of the statistics.
The United Nations publication, (2023) Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: Progress and challenges calls for documented status related to Census Information; Attitudes, perceptions, and incidents of discrimination; Administration of justice; Employment, Housing; Education, Health, and Poverty. I present, as an Independent Author and Publisher, (2024) Resist Turbulent Times: Ways to Save-Our-Selves: Ingram Spark (RTT) 192 pages of documented, statistical, contemporary and historical data collection and analysis of the destruction of the ability of African Americans to thrive and achieve general individual, family, and community well-being for the last 250 years in the USA.
Disaggregated Data – People of African Descent – Evidentiary Samples – USA
Section II: Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: Progress and challenges. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR)
Evidentiary disaggregated data derived from V.H. Olayinka, Resist Turbulent Times: Ways to Save-Our-Selves. (RTT). Annotated quotations follow topic headings and definitions outlined in the OHCR Report.
OHCR p. 7 Introduction: “In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations has redoubled efforts to counteract the harmful impact on inequalities on sustainable development.”
RTT p. 180 “Root cause analysis is a methodology used in multiple businesses, manufacturing, and, in our case – mental healthcare – social community settings or systems that view actions related to other actions, that can trigger event after event, until you have a problem or multiple problems. These events negatively impact our individual, family, or community well-being.”
OHCR p. 9 “to Advance Racial Equality Gathering diverse data … includes data from national and local censuses, household surveys, vital statistics, case studies…”
RTT pgs. 87-103 “Chapter 5: Ethnic Manipulation: A Case Study of Jamaica, Queens County, New York City.” – Focuses on Housing
OCHR p. 10: “The collection and publication of information from historical sources…ground public debate in evidence and help to counteract misconceptions.”
RTT p. 180 “Massacres and lynchings documented in Tables 11, 12, and 13 document the primary root causes showing cumulative historical evidence.”
OCHR p. 10: “The collection and publication of information from historical sources…ground public debate in evidence and help to counteract misconceptions.”
RTT p. 51 “I will momentarily take readers off on a Spiritual Tangent and explain my theory with support on the catalyst that influenced the residual social effects that brought about the ‘Great American Crime Decline.’ (Completely debunks the rise in crime or the current presence of increased violent crime as a false narrative to this day.)” Most recently, in the New York Times: Morning, August 8, 2022, G. Lopez presents a graph showing evidence of this downward trend in violent crime since 1995.”
OCHR p. 19 Housing: Re: the right to adequate housing…”in countries with sizeable populations of people of African descent, POADs tended to live in geographical locations that were segregated, disadvantaged and subjected to hazards.”
Recently, the Addisleigh Park Civic Organization (APCO) is in a legal battle with companies attempting to build hazardous lithium-ion battery energy storage Systems (BESS) in Jamaica, Queens. Jamaica, Queens consists of 19 square miles and there are plans for different stages of development in 5 residential neighborhoods."
RTT: p. 94 “In the 19 square miles of Southeast Jamaica, Queens County, NYC, there were 17,537 pre-foreclosures, foreclosures, short sales, sheriff sales, and bank foreclosure homes in March 2023. These homes are owned chiefly by people of African Descent.”
Interpretation: Southeast Jamaica, Queens consists of 10 Zip Codes. Zip code 11433 experienced a census undercount population loss of 4,252 from the 2020 census possibly due to apartment housing displacement and 1,575 foreclosures. In representation, Zip 11433 lost a New York State Assembly Seat; NY State lost 1 National Congressional Seat: The remaining 28,435 residents of civil society in zip 11433 lost Federal Funding allocations for the next 10 years as evidence of modern-day effects of pauperization. An unknown count of Civil Society members is now classified as and rendered “houseless.” Additional research is required to compare similarities in other U.S. Counties.
OCHR p. 19 Education: “Young children of African descent disproportionately received punishments that required them to stay out of school, ultimately affecting their access to education.”
RTT: p. 57, “Kemetic (African, Black) Americans and Hispanic people of color are being raised like cattle, victims of poor and failing education, cultivated to provide very low, almost free labor into the prison industrial complex.” This is commonly termed the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Reparatory justice in Education mentioned above, recommends correction of curriculum clearing up historical ambiguities and cultural recognition. The Parent Leadership Institute in NYC, Black Education Research Center, and the NYC Education Department endorsed Black Studies as the Study of the World: A PK-12 Black Studies Curriculum for New York City Public Schools. There is public access to this digital source and may be useful to civil society organizations and individuals for their regions, countries, or cities as a true POAD resource.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:e0025924-23f9-424d-b56d-34ecee40e61b
OCHR p. 20 Health: “States should aim to collect and analyze the extent to which people of African descent enjoy the right to adequate health.”
RTT: p. 54 The Social Determinants of Health include, but are not limited to quality jobs, economics, quality education, access to quality healthcare, neighborhood stability, and social and community context.
The Structural Determinants of Health include blocks to our well-being – racism, sexism, public and social policies, societal and cultural values, etc. The past approximately 25 years there have been changes in the quality of care.
P. 97 “It has come to my attention that nationwide, more than 1,450 medical personnel of all ethnicities – doctors, dentists, or pharmacists mostly serving inner-city communities, have been prosecuted for “misappropriating” pain medications. They were charged under the Controlled Substance Act, became targets of the ‘War on Drugs’ and were forced to be victims of civil forfeiture laws…p. 99 Medical professionals who serve our communities have a high ethical standing and care about chronic pain treatment. Over the years, they accumulate expensive medical equipment, assets of cars, offices and real estate property, and after all is conveniently confiscated, medical professionals have no resources to afford the necessary legal fees to plead their cases.”
Sources
(2025) Friends of the African Union, Chairman Hershel Daniels. “Mending Goals.”
(2023) Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: Progress and challenges. Issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
(2024) V.H. Olayinka. Resist Turbulent Times: Ways to Save-Our-Selves. Mo Betta Digital, Ingram Spark.
Respectfully submitted to Ms. Gaynell Curry, Chairperson of the United Nations 5th Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Saturday, April 25, 2026
Verda Harris-Olayinka