2007-2009
Afro-Descendants: Collective Land Rights in Latin America
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. This ambitious project was co-sponsored by the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
Related Files
- Colombia Report, "Unfulfilled Promises and Persistent Obstacles to the Realization of the Rights of Afro-Colombians"
- Colombia Report (versión en español), "Promesas Incumplidas y Obstáculos Persistentes para la Realización de los Derechos de los Afrocolombianos"
- Colombia Memorandum, "Afro-Colombian Human Rights: The Implication for U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement"
- Colombia Memorandum (versión en español), "Derechos Humanos Afro Colombianos: Las Implicaciones del acuerdo de Libre Comercio entre los EE.UU. y Colombia"
- Brazil Report, "Between the Law and Their Land: Afro-Brazilian Quilombo Communities’ Struggle for Land Rights"
- Brazil Report (versão em português), "Entre o direito e as suas terras: A luta das comunidades quilombolas pelo seu direito à terra"
- Brazil Report, Executive Summary, " "Between the Law and Their Land: Afro-Brazilian Quilombo Communities’ Struggle for Land Rights"
- Brazil Report, Sintese (versão em português), "Entre o direito e as suas terras: A luta das comunidades quilombolas pelo seu direito à terra"
- Ecuador Report, "Forgotten Territories, Unrealized Rights: Rural Afro-Ecuadorians and their Fight for Land, Equality, and Security"
- Ecuador Report (versión en español), "Territorios olvidados, derechos incumplidos: Afroecuatorianos en áreas rurales y su lucha por tierra, igualdad y seguridad"
- Ecuador Report, Executive Summary and Key Recommendations, "Forgotten Territories, Unrealized Rights: Rural Afro-Ecuadorians and their Fight for Land, Equality, and Security"
- Ecuador Report, Informe Ejectivo y Recomendaciones Claves (versión en español), "Territorios olvidados, derechos incumplidos: Afroecuatorianos en áreas rurales y su lucha por tierra, igualdad y seguridad"