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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, 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, 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 04, 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 02, 2012

      Right to Nationality of Dominicans of Haitian Descent in the Dominican Republic (CANCELLED HEARING)
Participants: Global Rights, 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, 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 01, 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, 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, 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 and Cultural 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, 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, 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, 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 05, 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 LGTBI
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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, Afrocolombianos Desplazados, Global Rights
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, Afrocolombianos Desplazados
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 07, 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 06, 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 02, 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, 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 07, 2006

      Human Rights Situation of Afro-descendant Communities in Colombia
Participants: Global Rights, 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 03, 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
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 05, 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 02, 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: 114 Period of Sessions; Date: Friday, March 08, 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 05, 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 06, 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 01, 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 09, 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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