A/HRC/23/19 relevant United Nations programmes and organizations and civil society to launch an informal consultative preparatory process for the proclamation of the International Decade of People of African Descent, with the theme, “People of African descent: recognition, justice and development”, with a view to proclaiming the Decade in 2013, and notes the work of the Working Group, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 61 of Assembly resolution 66/144 of 19 December 2011. 22