Against racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance
On Wednesday, September 23, at 16:00 PM in Argentina, Uruguay and most of Brazil (UTC-3), InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa in 2001, represented a historic turning point and a political and legal milestone for people of African descent globally.
The Convention “ 25 Years After Durban ”, from August 31 to September 4 at UNAM in Mexico, included, among various activities: the VI International Postgraduate School: “Beyond the International Decade for People of African Descent” organized by CLACSO, and the “Afrofeminist School 2026” organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute in alliance with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).
– Rachel Barros de Oliveira , Minister of Racial Equality of Brazil
– Florbela Fernandes , Representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Brazil and Director for Uruguay and Paraguay
– Rosa Campoalegre Septien , PUIC-UNAM
– Alejandro Gambina , Director of Training and Postgraduate Network at CLACSO
– Gaynel Curry (Bahamas) Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Assistant Professor at the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, University of The Bahamas. She led the work on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
– Laura Marlene Ochoa Murillo , Social Worker and Ethno-educator in Bogotá, Colombia
– Sofía Fernanda Juárez Guandulain , Trans Difusión AC
– Pavel Pupo , Activist and member of the Mandela Chair in Cuba
– Anny Ocoró Loango , PhD in Social Sciences and Master in Social Sciences with a focus on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
– Evelyn Pérez Brito , PhD student at the Postgraduate College, Mexico
– Juan Pablo Betancur , PhD student at the University of Manizales, Colombia
The program for Wednesday, September 23, covers two of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Social movements and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: resistance, articulations and construction of the common” and “Social right to education, public policies and pedagogical alternatives”
She drives: Gustavo LemaDirector of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Christian Iturricha and Renata Maestrovicente
Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
