The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia

Ojulari, Esther (2015) The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia. In: Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, pp. 19-28. ISBN 978-0-9931102-2-1

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Afro-descendant people make up around 30 per cent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, some 150 million people (IACHR 2011). In a context of mestizaje and the myth of racial democracy, Afro-descendant rights were not institutionalised in many Latin American states until the end of the 20th century. This reflected an invisibility at the international level where a specific normative framework on Afro-descendant rights did not begin to emerge until the beginning of the 21st century. Through multicultural citizenship reforms in the 1980s and 1990s several Latin American states recognised rights for their Afro-descendant populations; however, these tended to be subsumed into the existing indigenous rights framework, thus neglecting the specific situations of Afro-descendants.

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Additional Information	To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty.
Keywords	human rights, refugee protection, women’s human rights, tax justice, business and human rights, poetry, rights in the digital age
Subjects	Human Rights & Development Studies
Divisions	Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Date Deposited	27 Jan 2016 10:55
Last Modified	06 Aug 2024 04:33