Pakistan is set to have its first ever lawmaker of African descent, raising the profile of a small and mostly poor community that has been in the region for centuries. Tanzeela Qambrani ...

Researchers shed light on the genes that could be linked to the high mortality rates of prostate cancer among men of African ...

I urge States to take concrete steps, with the full participation of people of African descent and their communities, to tackle old and new forms of racial discrimination; and to dismantle ...

The United Nations General Assembly has officially adopted a resolution establishing a second Decade for People of African Descent. This new decade will run from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31 ...

Around 200 million people who identify themselves as being of African descent live in the Americas. Many millions more live in other parts of the world, outside of the African continent.