I'm John Bachelors with my good colleagues, Ernesto, former foreign mists to the Republic of Brazil and Joseph

Vumar Executive Director of Security Society, the news item from Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

United Nations Human Rights Chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a UN meeting.

Support is building among African and Caribbean nations goes the Reuters report for the creation of a tribunal to address

reparations which might include financial payments and other amends for crimes

dating back to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people.

Ernesto, I'll come to you on this because the United States has gone through 150 years

of inadequate response to the brutality of slavery that was ended by a civil war

that tore the country in half and it took many years if ever to knit it back

together. The Freedman's Bureau so called, I'm recently reading a book about this time period, was inadequate to the charge. We had people who were not educated, deliberately not educated,

and treated brutally by their owners. Turned free to do what without education, without skills, without money,

and no particular attention from the states that they still lived in,

which were defeated Confederate states.

Now, all of that is a well- known story here in North America.

How is it in Brazil that the people of African descent

when they were freed?

How did they respond or how did the state respond?

Oh, John, we had similar problems, very similar problems. Slavery was abolished, on God, of course, in 1888, it was late, but yes yes it was done very important step but it was only a

legal step so no more slaves okay but no measures were foreseen in order to provide jobs, to provide a

transition livelihood for people who worked in farms or in houses and suddenly

found themselves without any means of subsistence because many of them became

unemployed the agriculture land owners started to replace them with European migrants from Italy, from Germany, from Japan and other countries.

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