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Newsletter -February 2011

Afro-descendants

On September 13-17, 2010, the workshop entitled “Increasing the Participation and Advocacy of Afro-Descendants at the Organization of American States and the Summit of the Americas Process,” was held at OAS headquarters.

This workshop was organized by Global Rights Partners for Justice, a civil society organization registered with the OAS, and received collaboration and support from the OAS General Secretariat.

Within the framework of this event, the Department delivered a presentation on the Draft Inter-American Convention against Racism and All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance. The purpose of this presentation was to provide information on the current status of negotiations to representatives of organizations of people of African descent attending the workshop, as well as on some of the challenges currently facing this draft convention. In addition, the presentation was meant to encourage more active participation on the part of the representatives of afro-descendant organizations in the convention process.

Since the formation of the Working Group to Prepare a Draft Inter-American Convention against Racism and All forms of Discrimination and Intolerance in 2005, the DIL has provided legal advisory services to the Group and actively contributed to disseminating information on this subject. Moreover, in 2009, the Department launched its “Program for the Incorporation of the Afro-descendent Theme in the Policies and Programs of the OAS.” The program is currently being implemented and has met with much success. In addition, we have reported on the program’s activities in previous issues of this newsletter. (More information: http://www.oas.org/dil/afrodescendants.htm)

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