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Centro
Para el Desarrollo Urbano y Rural (CEPDUR),
Perú
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.
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)
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