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Centro
Para el Desarrollo Urbano y Rural (CEPDUR),
Perú
CEPDUR es convertirnos en un Centro de Desarrollo de capacidades
y destrezas haciendo uso y democratizando la Tecnologia, facilitando
el acceso a los mas pobres especialmente de las Mujeres y Jovenes
AFRODESCENDIENTES. Cepdur viene trabajando con grupos de mujeres
y jovenes en programas de iniciativas economicas, en salud, enfermedades
transmisibles/Sida, Igualdad de Oportunidades y genero, DDHH y
promovemos el uso de la teconologia como forma de democratizar,
facilitar el acceso y uso y recrearla
Fundación
Afro-América, Venezuela
Fundación Afro-América arose from the international
Afro-descendent forum UNESCO held in Caracas in 1993 with participants
from countries of Africa, Europe and the Americas and the Caribbean.
The Fundación was started with support from UNESCO through
del Decenio Mundial for cultural development, and training from
regional development organization CONAC that is dedicated to the
diffusion and reaffirmation of the cultures of the in our country
but also in the Caribbean and Africa. Areas that Fundación
Afroamerica are developing include organizing multicultural music
celebrations, publication of the magazine AFRICAMERICA and small
monographs and develop action plans to encourage Afro-descendent
populations to start businesses, host seminars and conferences.
Geledés,
Instituto de Mulher Negra, Brasil
Sueli Carneiro founded Geledes on April 30, 1988 as a black women's
political organization. The institutional mission of Geledes is
to combat race and gender discrimination, value and promote the
rights of Black women in particular, in the Black community and
in Brazilian society as a whole. Geledes acts as an impetus in the
development of proposals for public policy which promote the visibility,
analysis and public debate of the racial problem in Brazil. It encourages
the link between civil rights and human rights, thus arousing the
strategic process of increasing the popular consciousness of race
issues on the national and international levels. It works in networks
of both feminist and black community organizations. It has four
basic programs: human rights, health, communications and education.
México Negro AC,
México
Mexico Black A. C. has its origins in el Primer Encuentro de los
Pueblos Negros de la Costa Chica de Oaxaca y Guerrero, celebrated
in Comunidad de El Ciruelo, Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, March 14-16,
1997. Over the years México Negro A. C. has prepared and
coordinated the successive annual meetings Afro-Mexican communities
from the states of the southeast of Mexico.

ORGANIZACIONES
MUNDO AFRO
Montevideo - Uruguay
MudoAfro was created in 1988 to organize and mobilize the black
communities of Uruguay to fight for representation and policy change.
From September of 1993 Mundo Afro organized quarterly National Meetings
that bring together representation of all the delegates barriales
and departments of the country. These meetings inform the work of
organizations officers, made up of a President, a General Director
and eight executives that correspond to each one of the areas of
activity. The organization expanded its parameters from regional
to continental in December of 1994 joining in the Network of Organizations
Afroamericanas in coordinating the Seminar On Racism, Xenofobia
and Discrimination - A Program for the Afroamericanos. Mudo Afro
proposes - To promote the conscious participation of the members
of the black community of Uruguay to impove social and economic
conditions through the development of viable concrete programs;-
To fight against discrimination and racism;-To promote cooperation
and exchange between the more disenfranchised communities with sister
communities at the national and international level;-To achieve
the recovery and effective diffusion of our historic memory.

Organización
de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario (ODECO),
Honduras
Promote the development of Black Communities (Garifuna and non-Garifuna)
of Honduras. These efforts include the conservation and strengthening
of national cultural values of Garifunas and other members of the
Elnia Black Honurena. With the support of National and International
institutions and organizations, ODECO continues to promote projects,
change policy and develop action plans that improve the social,
economic conditions and political access of these communities. The
realities of unemployment and disintegration of living standards
tear at the cohesion of communities. The fight to retain the basic
Human Rights manifest in the Universal Declaration of the Human
Rights and the Constitution of the Republic must include all areas
of civil society. ODECO seeks to create cooperative businesses,
schools, libraries, professional technical institutes, health and
science centers, sports and cultural institutes to adequately provide
for the needs of these communities.
Céleo Alvarea Casido
Presidente
Luis Francisco Green
Vice-Presidente
odeco@hondutel.hn
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Red de Abogados Afro-Colombianos
Bogota - Colombia
Red
de Mujeres Afro latinoamericanas y Afro caribeñas,
Costa Rica
In 1992, a network of Afrocaribeñas and Afrolatinoamericanas
women from thirty-five regions participated in the First Encounter
of Black Women of Latin America and the Caribbean conference to
discuss and evaluate the situation of discrimination, violation
of human rights, poverty and cultural subordination that the black
women experience daily in Latin America and the Caribbean. The systematic
exclusion toward the women Afrocaribeñas and Afrolatinoamericanas
served as a focus the development of regional strategies to improve
the conditions of women. From 1992 to 1996 the Headquarters and
Coordination of the Network was in Dominican Republic, from 1997
and as result of the II Encounter of Women Afrocaribeñas
and Afrolatinoamericanas, the headquarters moved to the Center of
the Women Afrocostarricenses in San José, Costa Rica. The
objectives of the network are - To solidify working relationships
between of an extensive movement of Afrocaribeñas and Afrolatinoamericanas
women;
- Shed light on cultural, political, and socioeconomic reality of
black women who are subject to subordination and discrimination
as well as the consequent violations of our human rights; - Implement
public policy, and change the racist character of these policies;
- To fight for international policies that will directly benefit
the black women of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sociedad Caboverdiana,
Argentina
Congreso Mundial a la Sociedad Unión Caboverdiana y la Unión
de Mujeres Afrodescendientes de la República Argentin
Next Generation Network
(in development)

GALCI
Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Aveneue, HW1516
NY, NY 10065
galci@hunter.cuny.edu
ph:212.772.5485
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