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Afro-descendant Atlas: Ancestral Territories and Afro-descendant Peoples' Collective Lands in Latin America and the Caribbean

This Atlas of the ancestral territories, rural settlements, and collectively owned lands belonging to Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean is a product of organizations, leaders, activists, and academics involved in the Afro-descendant social movement in the Americas, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the Black ...
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Afro-descendant Peoples’ Territories in Biodiversity Hotspots across Latin America and the Caribbean: Barriers to Inclusion in Conservation Policies

2023
Afro-descendant Peoples are an integral part of the history and the economic, political, and social processes of nation-building and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. In fact, national censuses estimate that 21 percent of the region’s total population—just over 134 million people—are Afro-descendants. Yet, despite significant legislative
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Crafting electricity through social protest: Afro-descendant and indigenous Embera communities protesting for hydroelectric infrastructure in Utría National Park, Colombia

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2019
Development infrastructure is often discussed in terms of opposition by local and indigenous communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we present the case of local indigenous Embera and Afro-descendant communities in Chocó, Colombia, that protested ...
Nicolas Acosta Garcia, Katharine N Farrell   +1 more
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State of Funding for Tenure Rights: Donor Funding for Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples (2011–2024)

This second edition of the State of Funding for Tenure Rights provides an updated analysis of international donor funding for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples in tropical countries from 2011 to 2024. This edition includes an expanded scope to all terrestrial ecosystems, recognizing the importance of tracking funding ...
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State of Funding for Tenure Rights and Forest Guardianship: Donor Funding for Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples in Tropical Forested Countries (2011–2023)

On 10 April 2024, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) launched the Path to Scale dashboard, a new open-source online tool that gives easy access to donor funding data for Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ rights and forest guardianship.
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Health of Afro-descendant People in Latin America

2022
This report will build upon previous work and reports, analyzing existing publications to consolidate data already available on Afrodescendent health, with the aim of identifying key gaps in data on Afrodescendent health in the region, and recommending the areas of need for further work.
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Mapping the Presence, Lands, and Territories of Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean

2022
In coordination with 20 grassroots organizations and researchers of Afro-descendant Peoples, RRI, PNC, and OTEC carried out a joint investigation to identify the presence, lands, and territories of the Afro-descendant People in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Quality of life among indigenous and Afro-descendant Chilean older people: A persistent inequality gap

International Social Work
Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America face a bleak social and economic outlook that is exacerbated in rural old age. This research aimed to identify and describe latent profiles of quality of life of these people in a multiethnic Chilean sample of 1692 older people in rural areas, and to characterise these profiles according to ...
Lorena Patricia Gallardo-Peralta, José Luis Gálvez-Nieto, Constanza Veloso-Besio, Pilar Munuera-Gómez   +3 more
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RACISM AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN SWEDEN, BRAZIL, AND MEXICO

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This article explores how racism and stigmatizing discourses and practices are articulated and normalized in colonizer and colonized countries. The research compares the cases of Sweden, Brazil, and Mexico from a combination of frameworks -- the Critical Race Theory (Walton, 2019; Ansley, 1997), the neo-Marxist concept of institutional racism and ...
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Land, Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afro-descendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Journal of Poverty, 2023
Stephen Nathan Haymes, Vladimir Nunez Camacho, Llewellyn J. Cornelius   +2 more
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