The EPA-CRJ was launched during the Conference on the Pan African Roundtable on Reparations and Reparatory Justice organised by the Europe Pan African Forum for People of African Descent-EPAF-PAD on the 22-23 of November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium with the presence of 78 representatives of people of African descent from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Finland, United Kingdom, Ivory Coast, the U.S.A, Uganda and Togo;

EPA-CRJ is established with the aim to bring together, voices from across the African diaspora in Europe, to advocate for Reparatory Justice for Africa and its descendants, focusing on the State of the Vatican Rome and all other perpetrators that committed the crimes against Africa, African people and in Diaspora. Taking into account the international, Regional and National instruments on Human and Peoples Rights including the special Resolutions regarding the Human Rights and fundamental Freedoms of African People. This includes the Durban Declaration and Program of Action (2001), the UN Decades of People of African descent and all other affiliated human rights-related resolutions, declarations and agreements.

To mobilize the African Diaspora in preparation for the Year of Reparations declared by the African Union Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.