II AFROMADRID World Conference 2025

Madrid, October 21, 2025—From October 13 to 16, Madrid hosted the II AFROMADRID World Conference 2025, under the theme “People of African descent: A force for social transformation. Recognition and restorative justice”.

This international gathering became an essential space for dialogue, reflection, and action, where Afro-descendant peoples assumed the leadership that rightfully belongs to them. The participation of governments, international institutions, academia, the private sector, and civil society made this conference a unique opportunity to advance toward the eradication of systemic and structural racism and to build more just, inclusive, and equitable societies.

The conference was structured around nine debate panels which addressed key issues from a comprehensive and transformative perspective:

1. Ethical and historical reparations. Climate justice. Intellectual and cultural challenges.

2. Afro-descendants and human rights. Victims of hate crimes and of autocratic and/or democratically deficient regimes.

3. Recognition of African and Afro-descendant cultural and religious heritage.

4. Childhood and adolescence: educational reparations through education, culture, and society.

5. Africa, Europe, and the Americas: protagonists of a new multilateralism.

6. Challenges and strategies for Afro-descendant women.

7. Systemic racism: political and structural reparations.

8. Pan-Africanism in the new geopolitical context.

9. Human mobility: Afro-descendants as a force for social transformation.

Over the course of four days, more than 300 participants from countries such as Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the United States, France, England, Senegal, Cameroon, Benin, Niger, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among others, gathered in Madrid. The conference also featured the participation of Spanish civil society organizations of African and Latin American descent, as well as members of parliament and diplomatic delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Mauritania, Tunisia, Brazil, Libya, and the Dominican Republic.

Antonina Cupe, Communications Officer and Project Coordinator at the Women for Africa Foundation, took part in the session “Challenges and Strategies for Afro-descendant Women.” She emphasized the importance of integrating a gender perspective into all debate spaces and reports promoted by international bodies working to combat racism. She also highlighted the invisibility of Afro-descendant women as knowledge producers and proposed concrete strategies to address this issue.

At the Women for Africa Foundation, we proudly celebrate and fully support this initiative, which—within the framework of the Second International Decade for People of African Descent—makes a decisive contribution to strengthening a global agenda of recognition, justice, and development, while reminding us of the work that still lies ahead to ensure the full realization of the rights of Afro-descendants worldwide.