ETHNICITY, VIOLENCE AND EXCLUSION IN COLOMBIA:
THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND AFRO-COLOMBIAN COMMUNITIES
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
OISE, 52 Bloor St. W., room to be determined,
7pm - 9pm
Friday, March 16, 2007
Stong College Dining Hall, York University
9am - 6pm
(Please register for the Friday conference in advance by sending an
email to cerlac2@yorku.ca, indicating whether you will require
Spanish-English translation.)
With a staggering 3 million internally displaced persons and more than
70,000 people killed or forcibly disappeared since the late 1980s,
Colombia has been described by the United Nations as having the worst
humanitarian crisis in the Americas. Citizen insecurity in Colombia is
the result of many complex factors, in particular an internal armed
conflict – in existence for over forty years – and a profound social
conflict, characterized by deepening levels of poverty, growing
inequalities, and deeply rooted economic, social and political
exclusion. Colombia’s ethnic minorities, in particular its Indigenous
and Afro-Colombian peoples, have suffered disproportionately from both
conflicts to the point that, according to the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, some Indigenous peoples in that
country are currently in danger of extinction.
This conference will bring together activists, academics and key
representatives of Colombia’s Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples to
examine the dramatic situation facing these threatened communities and
their proposals for positive change.
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For full program details, go to
http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac
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PARTICIPATION IS FREE – ALL ARE WELCOME
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