Suriname Elfde Regio Diaspora Council (slot)
door dr.
Barryl Biekman
In deze
artikelenreeks belichten we het document van de Suriname
Elfde Regio Diaspora Council, opgesteld door dr. Barryl Biekman, en de
betekenis ervan voor Suriname en haar wereldwijde gemeenschap. Dit is slot van
de reeks.
Barryl A. Biekman
Doctor (Ph.D.)
in Social Sciences
A Pan Africanist,
well-known as a successful human rights-activist, lobbyist, networker and
broker for almost five decades. In Suriname the country of her birth she was
involved in the student movement and later in the Netherlands she became one of
the freedom fighters, activist for the State independence of Suriname.
National Slavery
Monument
Biekman is
founder of the African European Women’s Movement ‘Sophiedela’. Under her leadership
the trans-Atlantic Slave trade and the enslavement of African People became a
formal issue on the National Agenda of the Dutch Parliament in 1998. Within
this scope she was appointed to lead the process towards the establishing of
the National Platform of Dutch Slavery Past (LPS), the organization responsible
for the that initiated the establishing of a National Slavery Monument and the
National Institute Dutch Slavery Past and its effects (NiNsee). In 2023 LPS was
appointed as associated member of the Caricom Reparation Commission.
EU
involvement
Biekman is the leading
force after many developments and activities with regards to combatting
Afrofophia. She is the initiator and co-founder of the Europe Pan African Forum
for people of African Descent and the Europe Pan African Coalition on Reparatory
Justice (www.epafpad.org)
UN involvement
During the
UN WCAR Conference in Durban 2001 Biekman was the NGO Liaison in the Dutch
Governmental Delegation, unanimous
appointed by the involved Pan African organizations, Women’s movements and all other
relevant Dutch NGOs.
Since than Biekman is well-known as the driver and her Passion towards fully
implementation of the Durban (2001) Action Program and the affiliated
Resolutions. As she said: “It was
for me an excellent opportunity, to support the lobby that the trans-Atlantic Slave trade, slavery
and colonialism be declared as crimes against humanity”. In 2006 she was one of the
initiators of the Pan African Roundtable on Durban Plus 5 and one of the project leaders of the Addis Ababa Roundtable in April
2007. She was one of the leading civil society authorities during the UN and
civil society preparation sessions towards and during the United Nations Durban
Review in April 2009; the International Year for People of African descent
2011 and the adoption of the UN General
Assembly resolution by which 2015-2024
was declared as the UN International Decade for People of African descent. In
2014 she was appointed by the
President of the 69th session of UN General Assembly as civil
society Speaker during the UN Launching of the International Decade for People
of African descent and in 2021 during the commemoration of the 20 years
anniversary of the DDPA. On Global Level Biekman is well-known as one of the
leading forces of the Coordination for the implementation and monitoring of the
Durban and UN Decade Programs of Action.
African
Union 6th Region Policy
Biekman is
well known as one of the leading African Diaspora forces behind the
implementation of the African Union African Diaspora 6th region
policy (2012). Under her leadership the African Union (AU)African Diaspora
Sixth Region High Council (www.auadshighcouncil.org)
was established in context of Article 3Q of the AU Constitutive Act and a
Leading Force in the Netherlands, Europe,
AU and UN
level on the issue of Reparatory justice for the historical crimes against
Africa and African people.
Awards
Dr Biekman is the owner
of several awards for her
longstanding track records on
diverse issues of human rights
and People of African Descent’s Concern. Read more about Dr. Barryl A.
Biekman https://auadshighcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/LIFE-ACHIEVEMENT-Dr-Barryl.pdf
. To make it complete: in 2023 she received the “African Voice Certificate
of Achievement”; In 2024 she was Coronated as “Princess of the Kingdom
of Kush”; In the same year she received the “Black Life Time Achievement
Award 2024”; in 2025 she received from the Kingdom of Kush the “Life
Time Achievement Certificate of Honor”.
.JPG)
