[2] The GAC has defined reperation and restitution as: The GAC was organized in October 2002[4] in Bridgetown, Barbados and is a direct outgrowth of the African-African Descendants Caucus (AADC) formed before the 2001 United Nations World Conference on Racism (UNWCAR).
Organized by attorney Roger Wareham, the AADC became the leading voice of Africans throughout the world during the UNWCAR.
The AADC was instrumental in getting the Transatlantic slave trade declared "a crime against humanity", and opened the door for a direct, legal assault on nations and corporations that benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The GAC continues the AADC's work and is now organized in 35 nations,[4] and is "the largest Pan-African Black Nationalist group in the world.
"[4] Its constitutional convention, held in October 2004 in Paramaribo, Suriname, ratified a document considered by many to codify the direction in which the Pan-African movement should move during the 21st century.