Dear Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Subcommittee Chairman Steve Cohen, and Chairman Jerrold Nadler, The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, one of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council, is an independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanism that operates globally to investigate and assess human rights of people of African descent. In 2016, at the invitation of Your Excellencies’ government, the Working Group conducted a fact-finding country visit to the United States and issued conclusions and recommendations based on its findings there. In 2020, the Working Group participated in and commented on the United Nations Human Rights Council Urgent debate on racially inspired human rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests. There and elsewhere, the Working Group has affirmed the right to reparations and the importance of meaningful reparations for people of African descent in the United States.