As part of a multi-year research project on Afro-Descendant and indigenous land rights in Latin America, the Rapoport Center sent interdisciplinary fact-finding delegations of professors and students to Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador to assess local land rights situations and write reports about their findings, including policy recommendations to relevant governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations and policymakers.
Performers from La Palma Negra, a youth dance group of displaced Afro-descendant and mestizo youth in Soacha.
The Rapoport Center coordinated a spring break fact-finding delegation to Brazil in 2008 to investigate and gather information on the status of collective land claims by Afro-Brazilian communities.
UT delegation members at a community meeting in Maldonado, Esmeraldas
The Rapoport Center coordinated a spring break fact-finding delegation to Ecuador to meet with community members, NGOs, academics, government officials, and others.
