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Besides June: Afro-Peruvian Culture Month. Progress in Public Policies for the AfroPeruvian Population by 2015 Angie Edell Campos Lazo Director of Organization and Communications, Ashanti Perú Lima, Peru Jorge Rafael Ramírez M.S., Social Service and Social Policy, UEL, CAPES scholarship recipient Londrina, Brazil “We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. W hen we think about Latin America and the Caribbean we can see, among their many characteristics, a continent with a high degree of social, economic, political, and cultural inequality. In this particular context, the Afro-descendant population is one of the social groups that are still being excluded and made invisible by processes in the hands of States and societies. Today, in speaking of the Afro-descendant population we are talking about a group for whom the generation of inclusive public policies and affirmation actions is particularly important. According to the Organization of American States (OAS), “there are about 200 million Afrodescendant inhabitants throughout the Americas, who continue being victims of racism and discrimination, according to offices of the Inter-American System. They are still being deprived of some of their basic rights and needs.”1 According to the Black Association for the Defense and Protection of Human 101