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Session: 178 Virtual Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 9, 2020

      Police violence and racism against Afro-descendants in the region
Participants:
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 177 Virtual Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2020

      Structural racism and police violence in the United States
Participants:
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Citizen Security
N/A N/AN/A

Session: 177 Virtual Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 5, 2020

      Lack of protection for groups of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia: indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant communities and social leaders
Participants:
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Labor and Workers' Rights, Transitional Justice, Impact of violence and armed conflicts, Right of Association
N/A N/AN/A

Session: 175 Period of Sessions Public Hearings; Date: Friday, March 6, 2020

      Police violence against African descent people in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Coalizão Negra por Direitos
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
N/A

Session: 175 Period of Sessions Public Hearings; Date: Thursday, March 5, 2020

      Case 13.615 - Miskitu Indigenous Community of Tasbapounie; Afro-descendant Community of Monkey Point; Rama Indigenous People, Black Creole Community of Bluef, Nicaragua
Participants: State of Nicaragua, Centro de Asistencia Legal a Pueblos Indígenas (CALPI)
Countries: Nicaragua
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
N/A

Session: 174 Period of Sesions; Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019

      Case 12.569 - Quilombola Communities of Alcântara vs Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Justiça Global, Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos, Centro de Cultura Negra do Maranhão, Associação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão, Defensoria Pública da União, Federação dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Maranhão (FETAEMA), Movimento dos Atingidos pela Base Espacial de Alcântara (MABE)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Aggression against freedom of religions of African origin in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Rede Nacional de Mulheres Negras no Combate à Violência, Coletivo de Jovens Negras Acotirene, Instituto da Mulher Negras de Mato Grosso (Imune), Rede Nacional Juventude do Axé , Rede Nacional de Religiões Afro Brasileiras e Saúde (Renafro), Associação de Umbanda e Candomblé de Campinas e Região Promotoras Legais Populares, Coletivo Marias de Luta, Fórum Paulista de Direitos Humanos, Associação das Comunidades Tradicionais de Matriz Africana de Campinas e Região (Armac), Coletivo de Mulheres Negras de Cáceres
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Situation of human rights violation of Afro-LGBTI persons in the Americas
Participants: Trans Siempre Amigas (TRANSSA), The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, Alessandra Ramos, Instituto Transformar Shélida Ayana , Janaina Oliveira, Rede Nacional de Negras y Negros LGBTI de Brasil , Emigdio Cuesta Pino, Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afro-Colombianas CNOA, Nixon Ortiz, Fundación Afrocolombiana Arco Iris de Colombia, Johana Caicedo Sinisterra, Fundación Afrodescendiente por las Diversidades Sociales y Sexuales SOMOS IDENTIDAD, Juana Mora Cedeño, Alianza Cubana Manos, Marco Antonio Ramírez Shupingahua, Red Peruana de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes Ashanti Perú, Cristian King, Anita Sinha, Consultorio Jurídico Internacional de los Derechos Humanos de American University Washington College of Law , Carlos Quesada
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Persons LGBTI
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Session: 173 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019

      Reparation for Slavery and Other Forms of Structural Racial Discrimination in the United States
Participants: State of the United States, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law (TMCRC)
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
N/A

Session: 172 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, May 9, 2019

      Criminal System and alleged violations of the rights of African descendants in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Centro de Direitos Humanos do Sapopemba “Pablo Gonzales Olalla”, Associação de familiares e amigos de presos/as (AMPARAR), Criola-Organização de Mulheres Negras, Centro de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente Mônica Paião Trevisan (CEDECA-Sapopemba), Movimento Negro Unificado do Brazil, Movimento Mães de Maio , Centro de Assessoria Popular Mariana Criola, UNEAFRO BRASIL, Aliança Hip Hop Taquaril , Alma Preta Jornalismo, Amma Psique e Negritude, Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa, Bloco Afro Ilú Oba De Min, Casa do Hip Hop do Taquaril, Casa do Meio do Mundo, Centro de Estudo das Relações de Trabalho e Desigualdades (CEERT), Coletivo Força Ativa , Coletivo Negro Vozes da UFABC, Comunidade Cultural Quilombaque, Comunidade de Samba Maria Cursi , Comunidade de Samba Pagode na Disciplina Jardim Miriam, Coordenação Nacional de Entidades Negras (CONEN) , Cooperifa, Cursinho Popular Carolina de Jesus, Desenrola e Não me Enrola, Festival da Mulher Afro-Latina-Americana e Caribenha – Latinidades, Fórum Permanente pela Igualdade Racial Fórum Grita Baixada (FOPIR), Grupo de Amigos e Familiares de Pessoas em Privação de Liberdade, Grupo Kilombagem , IDEAS - Assessoria Popular, Marcha de Mulheres Negras (MMN) , Núcleo de Consciência Negra na USP (NCN), Pretas em Movimento, Rede de Mulheres Negras de Minas Gerais , Rede de Proteção e Resistência Contra Genocídio, Rede Urbana de Ações Socioculturais- (RUAS), Ubuntu Cursinhos, União de Negros pela Igualdade (UNEGRO)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
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      Inclusion of racial criteria in the Mexico 2020 census
Participants: State of Mexico, Afrodescendencias en Mexico A.C, Copera A.C, Asociación de Mujeres de la Costa de Oaxaca (AMCO. A.C), Mexico Negro A.C, Pueblos y Organizaciones Costeñas Autónomas (Epoca A.C), La Ventana Investigación y Divulgación Científica para el Desarrollo Regional A.C., Alianza Cívica Pinotepa Nacional A.C, Mano Amiga de la Costa Chica A.C, La Fundación Afromexicana Petra Morga A.C , Presente y Cambio , Ciudadanía Activa MX, Unidad para el Progreso de Oaxaca A C, Organización para el Fomento de la Equidad de Género y el Respeto de los Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos Negros Afromexicanos, Colectivo para Eliminar el Racismo, Universidad Veracruzana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Countries: Mexico
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 172 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2019

      Situation of the indigenous and afrodescendant peoples of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH), State of Nicaragua, Centro por la Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN), Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM Defensoras), Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo del Sureste de Nicaragua (Fundación del Rio), Fundación Popol Na para la Promoción y el Desarrollo Municipal, The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, Centro de Información y Servicios de Asesoría en Salud (CISAS), Iniciativa Nicaragüense de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de las mujeres (IN-Defensoras), La Asociación Diversidad Sexual Nicaragüense (ADISNIC)
Countries: Nicaragua
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 171 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019

      Human Rights Situation of Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Centro de Cultura Negra do Maranhão, Associação de Advogados de Trabalhadores Rurais no Estado de Bahia (AATR), Commisão Pastoral da Terra, Terra de Direitos, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, Environment
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Session: 169 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 4, 2018

      Rights of Afro-Mexicans and Afrodescendents in Mexico
Participants: State of Mexico, Instituto sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos, Afrodescendencias en Mexico A.C, Copera A.C, Red INTEGRA, Fundación Ayabs, Comité Ciudadano en Defensa de los Naturalizados y Afromexicano (CCDNAM), Asociación de Mujeres de la Costa de Oaxaca (AMCO. A.C), Mexico Negro A.C, CUCULUSTE A.C., Pueblos y Organizaciones Costeñas Autónomas (Epoca A.C), La Ventana Investigación y Divulgación Científica para el Desarrollo Regional A.C., Cooperativa de Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar , Red de Mujeres de la Costa Chica (REMCO A.C.), Alianza Cívica Pinotepa Nacional A.C, Raíces de Identidad A.C., Colectiva de la Costa de Oaxaca Ñaa Tunda
Countries: Mexico
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 169 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018

      Reports of Killings, Threats, and Forced Displacement of Defenders of Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afrodescendents in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Movimiento Significativo de Ciudadanos Colombia Humana , Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (MAIS), Corporación para los Derechos de los Afrodescendientes (CODEAFRO)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Human Rights Defenders, Forced Displacement
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      Reports of Violations of the Rights of AfroColombian Communities Affected by the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES), Instituto sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Impact of violence and armed conflicts
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Session: 168 Period of Sessions IACHR; Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018

      Reports of Homicides of Afrodescendent Adolescents in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Justiça Global, Associação Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescene (ANCED) Brasil, Centro de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente Mônica Paião Trevisan (CEDECA-Sapopemba), Fórum Permanente das Organizações Não-Governamentais de Defesa dos Direitos de Crianças e Adolescentes do Ceará (Fórum DCA Ceará)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Children, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 165 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 23, 2017

      Reports of Extrajudicial Executions and Excessive Use of Preventive Detention against Afro-descendants in Jamaica
Participants:
Countries: Jamaica
Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Right of Access to Land of Quilombola Afro-descendants in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Justiça Global, Associação de Advogados de Trabalhadores Rurais no Estado de Bahia (AATR), Terra de Direitos, Comisión Pastoral de Tierra, Conectas, Brasil , Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ) , Comissão Pró-Índio de São Paulo (CPI/SP)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 163 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2017

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-Descendants Affected by the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Observatorio de Discriminación Racial, Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), Centro de Estudios de Derechos Justicia y Sociedad (DeJusticia)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 162 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, May 25, 2017

      Institutional Framework of Indigenous and AfroDescendant Peoples in Peru
Participants: State of Peru, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad (IIDS), Confederación Nacional Agraria (CNA), Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP), Central Única de Rondas Campesinas del Perú (CUNARC-P), Federación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas, Artesanas, Indígenas, Nativas y Asalariadas del Perú (FENMUCARINAP), Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú (ONAMIAP), Unión Nacional de Comunidades Aymaras (UNCA), Consejo Nacional Afroperuano (CNAfro), Red peruana de jóvenes afrodescendientes (ASHANTI-Perú), Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (ASONEDH)
Countries: Peru
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 161 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017

      Reports of Violence against LGBTI People of African Descent in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Rede Nacional de Negros e Negras LGBT, The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Human Rights Defenders, Rights of Persons LGBTI
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      Human Rights Situation of Young People in Guyana
Participants: Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), State of Guyana, ChildLinK, Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC)
Countries: Guyana
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Children, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, Rights of Persons LGBTI
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Session: 161 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017

      Case 12.545 – Isamu Carlos Shibayama and Others, United States (Merits)
Participants: Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP), Karen Parker
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Migrants and their Families, Petitions and Cases, Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
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      Human Rights Situation of Afro-Descendants in Cuba
Participants: Comité Ciudadanos por la Integración Racial (CIR), Instituto sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos
Countries: Cuba
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 157 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016

      Human Rights Situation of Afrodescendent Women in Brazil
Participants: Geledés-Instituto da Mulher Negra, Criola-Organização de Mulheres Negras, Instituto Patrícia Galvão, The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Persons LGBTI
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Session: 156 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 23, 2015

      Reports of Excessive Use of Force by the Police against People of African Descent in the United States
Participants: State of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), St. Louis University School of Law
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Human Rights Situation of People of African Descent in Costa Rica
Participants: State of Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en estudios de la mujer de la Universidad de Costa Rica (CIEM), Asociación para el Desarrollo de las Mujeres Negras Costarricenses , Unión Asesora Afrodescendiente, Red Nacional de Juventud Afrocostarricense (RENAJFRO), Agenda Política de Mujeres
Countries: Costa Rica
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 156 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015

      Reports of Discrimination against People of African Descent in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES), Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF), Centro de Estudios de Derechos Justicia y Sociedad (DeJusticia), Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas (CNOA), Proceso Afrourbano de Bogotá
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 156 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015

      Situation of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-Descendants along Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Nicaragua, Centro por la Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN)
Countries: Nicaragua
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Report by Peru’s National Commission against Discrimination
Participants: State of Peru, Procuraduría Pública Especializada Supranacional del Perú
Countries: Peru
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 154 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 20, 2015

      Reports of Killings of Young People of African Descent in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Associação Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescene (ANCED) Brasil
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Children, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 154 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, March 16, 2015

      Criminal Justice and Race in the Unites States
Participants: State of the United States
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
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Session: 153 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 31, 2014

      Situation of Violence against Creole and Garifuna Populations in Central America
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 153 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 27, 2014

      Reports of Racism in the Justice System of the United States (On the Commission’s initiative)
Participants: State of the United States, American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section , New York University School of Law , ACLU of the Nation’s Capital , Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCUL)
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 150 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014

      Impact of “Stand Your Ground” Laws on Minorities in the United States
Participants: State of the United States, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), University of Miami Human Rights Clinic (HRC), Community Justice Project, Florida Legal Services, Inc., The Dream Defenders, Inc., Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 150 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, March 24, 2014

      Situation of the Right to Nationality of Dominicans of Haitian Descent affected by Denationalization Policies in the Dominican Republic
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Dominican Republic, Colectiva Mujer y Salud , Centro Pedro Francisco Bonó (Centro Bonó), Movimiento Socio Cultural de Trabajadores Haitianos, Inc. (MOSCTHA) , Fundación Étnica Integral (FEI) , Solidaridad Fronteriza , Centro Cultural Dominico-Haitiano (CCDH) , Observatorio Migrantes del Caribe (OBMICA), Centro de Acción Social y Agraria (CEFASA)
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 149 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, November 1, 2013

      Discrimination against Persons of African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean
Participants: Fundación AfroAmigos , Instituto Centroamericano para el Desarrollo de la Economía Social (INCADES) , Asociación Napguana, Centro Ecuatoriano de Desarrollo y Estudios Alternativos (CEDEAL) , Asociación Civil Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia, Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Democracia
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 149 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013

      Situation of Afro-descendant Leaders in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES), Global Rights - Partmers for Justice
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 149 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013

      Human Rights Situation of Trans Persons of African Descent in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Rede Negra LGBT de Brazil
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Persons LGBTI

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Session: 147 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013

      Situation of Human Rights of Afro-descendant Women in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), Asociación de Mujeres Afrodescendientes y del Caribe Graciela Cha Inés , Corporación Caminos de Mujer en Tumanco y el Palenque El Congal
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 147 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, March 11, 2013

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendant Women in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Associação Cultural de Mulheres Negras (ACMUN)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 146 Period of Sessions; Date: Sunday, November 4, 2012

      Situation of Afro-Descendant Population in Cuba
Participants: Comité Ciudadanos por la Integración Racial (CIR), Afrocuban Alliance, Empodera Cuba , State of Cuba
Countries: Cuba
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 146 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, November 2, 2012

      Right to Nationality of Dominicans of Haitian Descent in the Dominican Republic (CANCELLED HEARING)
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, State of Dominican Republic, Robert F. Kennedy, Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), Red de Encuentro Dominico Haitiano Jacques Viau (REDHJV), Open Society Justice Initiative (OSI), Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico Haitianas (MUDHA), Centro Pedro Francisco Bonó (Centro Bonó), Movimiento Socio Cultural de Trabajadores Haitianos, Inc. (MOSCTHA) , Asociación 180° para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo , Centro Jesús Peregrino, Centro de Formación y Acción Social y Agraria (CEFASA) , Solidaridad Fronteriza , Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados y Migrantes de República Dominicana , Catholic Relief Services (CRS) , Refugees International
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
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Session: 146 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012

      Situation of Afro-Descendant Women in Brazil (CANCELLED HEARING)
Participants: State of Brazil, Associação Cultural de Mulheres Negras (ACMUN)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 143 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 28, 2011

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendant Women in Latin America
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 143 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

      Human Rights Situation of the Afro-Peruvian Population
Participants: State of Peru, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer Negra Peruana (CEDEMUNEP)
Countries: Peru
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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      Access to Education for Indigenous, Peasant, Afro-descendant and Rural Women
Participants: Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM)
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights

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Session: 143 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 24, 2011

      Case 12.738 - Opario Lemoth Morris and Others (Buzos Miskitos), Honduras (Testimony)
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Honduras, Asociación Misquita Hondureña de Buzos Lisiados (AMHBLI), Miskitu Indiang Mairin Asia Takanka (MIMAT-Asociación de Mujeres Miskitas de la Costa Atlántica), Consejo de Ancianos Almuk Nani Asla Takanka
Countries: Honduras
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases, Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Session: 141 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

      Right to Prior, Free, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants in the Andean Region
Participants: Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) of Peru, Centro sobre Derecho y Sociedad of Ecuador (CIDES), Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF), Fundación Construir, Centro de Estudios de Derechos Justicia y Sociedad (DeJusticia), Cooperación
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 141 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 25, 2011

      Human Rights Situation of Persons of African Descent in Uruguay
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, State of Uruguay, Formación para la Transformación Social Afrodescendiente, Agrupación Salvador Betervide , Asamblea Afrodescendiente, Centro Umbandista “Reina da Mata”
Countries: Uruguay
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 140 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010

      Human Rights Situation of Peasants and Persons of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous Descent in Cantón de Talamanca, Costa Rica
Participants: State of Costa Rica, Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de Manzanillo, Organizaciones comunales
Countries: Costa Rica
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 140 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 25, 2010

      Allegations on Excessive Use of Police Force against Afro-descendants in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Geledés-Instituto da Mulher Negra
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 137 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009

      Situation of Afro-Colombian, Indigenous and Campesino Communities of Northern Cauca, Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 134 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, March 23, 2009

      Case 12.573 – Marino López y Others (Operation Genesis), Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases

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Session: 133 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 27, 2008

      Case 12.569 – Quilombolas communities of Alcántara, Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Justiça Global, Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos, Centro de Cultura Negra do Maranhão, Associação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão, Federação dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Maranhão, Global Exchange, Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Movimento dos Atingidos pela Base Espacial
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 133 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008

      Racial discrimination and access to justice of Afro-descendants in Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes, Observatorio de Discriminación Racial, Rappaport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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      Discrimination on the base of Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation in the Americas
Participants: Taller de Comunicación Mujer
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Persons LGBTI
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Session: 131 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

      Human Rights Situation of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES), Global Rights - Partmers for Justice
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Human rights situation of displaced Afro-Colombians
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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      Right to education of members of Afro-Descendent and Indigenous communities in the Americas
Participants: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights , Cornell University Law School, University of Virginia Law School
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 131 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 7, 2008

      Situation of Discrimination of Afro-descendents in Labor, Education and Access to Justice in the Americas
Participants: Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Labor and Workers' Rights

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Session: 129 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

      Situation of Descendants of Fugitive Slaves of the Colonial Period (“Quilombolas”) in Brazil
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Brazil, Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Federación de Órganos para la Asistencia Social y Educacional (FASE)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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      Situation of Descendants of Slaves Escaped during the Colonial Period (Quiolombolas), Brazil
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Brazil, Federación de Órganos para la Asistencia Social y Educacional (FASE), Red Social de Justicia y Derechos Humanos
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 128 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007

      Situation of Afrobrazilian women
Participants: State of Brazil, Geledés-Instituto da Mulher Negra
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 127 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007

      Situation of Afro Descendents in Colombia
Participants: Asociacion para la Promocion Social Alternativa (MINGA)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 127 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 2, 2007

      Petition 1207/05 – John Melvin Alexander and others, United States
Participants: State of the United States, Gay McDougall, Charles Ogletree Jr.
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases

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      Racial Discrimination in the Dominican Republic
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados/as y Migrantes (SJRM), State of Dominican Republic
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination

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Session: 124 Period of Sessions; Date: Sunday, March 12, 2006

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendant Communities in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Partners for Justice, Rodnei Jericó da Silva
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 124 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2006

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendant Communities in Colombia
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice, Partners for Justice
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 124 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 3, 2006

      Situation of persons affected by mandatory minimum sentences in the United States
Participants: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), Justice Roundtable, Open Society Policy Center, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 123 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 21, 2005

      Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Situation of Haitian and Dominican-Haitian Communities in Dominican Republic
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Dominican Republic, Antonio Pol Emil
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 123 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 14, 2005

      Allegations of Acts of Torture by the Police against Afro-descendents in Chicago, US
Participants: State of the United States, Locke Bowman, McArthur Justice Center
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 121 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004

      Case 12.338 - Doce Clanes Saramaka, Suriname
Participants: Fergus McKay, David Padilla, State of Suriname
Countries: Suriname
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
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Session: 121 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, October 25, 2004

      Precautionary Measures in favour of Jorge Isaac Aramburó and Request of Information on the Afro-Colombian Communities in the Yurumangi River Basin
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Minga
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Precautionary Measures
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Session: 121 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 22, 2004

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-Descendants in the Americas
Participants: Global Rights - Partmers for Justice
Countries:
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 121 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, October 21, 2004

      Case 12.440 - Wallace de Almeida, Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Justiça Global
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
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Session: 119 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 5, 2004

      Case 12.338 - Clanes Saramaka, Suriname
Participants: Fergus McKay, David Padilla
Countries: Suriname
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
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Session: 119 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2004

      Precautionary Measures - Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas, Negras e Indígenas de Colombia (ANMUCIC)
Participants: State of Colombia, Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Women, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Human Rights Defenders
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Session: 118 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2003

      Situation of Afro-Colombian Communities in the Buenaventura County
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Minga
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Information on Racial Discrimination in the United States
Participants: International Human Rights Law Group
Countries: United States
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Information on Affirmative Action in the Americas
Participants: International Human Rights Law Group
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 118 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003

      Promotion of Racial Equality in Brazil
Participants: State of Brazil, Secretaría Especial de Políticas de Promoción de la Igualdad Racial (SEPPIIR)
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 117 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003

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Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Rights of Migrants and their Families
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Session: 117 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003

      Precautionary Measures - Afro-Colombian Communities Jugiamiandó, Colombia
Participants: State of Colombia, Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP)
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Precautionary Measures
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Session: 114 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 8, 2002

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-Brazilians and Racial Discrimination in Brazil
Participants: International Human Rights Law Group
Countries: Brazil
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 114 Period of Sessions; Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2002

      Situation of the Afro-Colombian Population in the Coast of Nariño
Participants: State of Colombia, Asociación Minga
Countries: Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendants in the Americas
Participants: International Human Rights Law Group
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 113 Period of Sessions; Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001

      Case 12.189 - Dilcia Yean and Violeta Bosica, Dominican Republic
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Dominican Republic, University of Berkeley
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Children, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
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Session: 106 Period of Sessions; Date: Monday, March 6, 2000

      Case 12.189 - Dilcia Jean y Violeta Bosico, Dominican Republic
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), State of Dominican Republic, University of Berkeley
Countries: Dominican Republic
Topics: Rights of Children, Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, Petitions and Cases
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Session: 104 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, October 1, 1999

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendants in Latin America
Participants: Organization of Africans in the Americas
Countries: Regional
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
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Session: 93 Period of Sessions; Date: Wednesday, October 9, 1996

      Human Rights Situation of the Jewish Community in Latin America
Participants: B'nai B'rith
Countries:
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination, General Human Rights Situation
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