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• Organization of 1st National Conference for Young Afro-Peruvians: “Towards Validation of a
Political Agenda for Afro-Descendant Youth on the Road to the Nation’s Bicentennial.”
It was a place for national discussion in which 50 young Afro-Peruvian leaders from Piura, Lambayeque, Arequipa, Lima, Callao, Ica, Moquegua, and Tecna devoted three days, elaborating a policy
and strategy roadmap for impact on public policies and affirmative actions that promote local development WITH identity and WITHOUT racism and racial discrimination, WITH social inclusion in
specific working groups for Education, Work, Health, Culture and Participation for Afro-Descendant
communities in Peru.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZevOFSVVV7c

Participants in the 1st National Conference of Young Afro-Peruvians, Lima 2013
• They received an Honorable Mention from the French Embassy and UNESCO for the 2014
Javier Pérez de Cuellar National Human Rights Award.
The French Embassy in Peru publicly acknowledged Ashanti Peru during the Third Javier Pérez de
Cuellar Human Rights Award ceremony, in recognition of the Human Rights Training School for
Young Afro-Descendant Leaders, an intense eight-month program that contributed to the development and training of 40 young people from the Afro-Peruvian communities of Chincha, Pisco, Ica,
Nazca and Acarí. These young people convened physically and virtually to promote generational renewal and new identity-based leadership practices for the struggle for human rights and social inclusion, leading towards the creation of an agenda for the Regional and Municipal Elections of 2014.

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