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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

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