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Newsletter on childhood and adolescence
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© UNICEF Panamá/2007-057/Bell
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Within the framework of the International Decade of People of African Descent, which runs between 2015 and 2024, this edition of the CHALLENGES newsletter focuses for the first time on the rights of children of African descent in the region. In Latin American and Caribbean countries, people of African descent are at a disadvantage because of historical structural inequality and multiple forms of discrimination.
The main article presents the situation of Afrodescendent children and some specific elements in the field of health and education, as well as challenges for the future. We can hear the voice of Afro-Colombian and Afro-Peruvian children and learn about the Black Lives campaign in Brazil. Experience in a school in the Dominican Republic, the use of capoeira as a means to combat racism and a didactic guide used in Uruguayan schools are also collected. In the Points of View section we have a specialist who presents the situation of Afro-Colombian children. Finally, several publications are disseminated that show the situation of children of African descent.
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© UNICEF Cuba/2008/Mrazikova
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Laís Abramo and Marta Rangel
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The history of Latin America is closely related to European colonization, conquest and slavery. The latter consisted both of the enslavement of part of the indigenous population and, in particular, of African people trafficked intercontinentally.
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© UNICEF Chile/2019/E. González
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Dora Inés Vivanco Julio
Master in Development Management, Consultant, Researcher
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The orality of Afro-Colombian population gathers traditions with which boys and girls of African descent have grown up who, from different regions, share symbolic elements and stories that denote the connection with rivers and seas around which, centuries ago, cimarron ancestors constituted Palenques as territories free from slave trade.
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The voices of children and adolescents
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© UNICEF/UN0119991/Bradley
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Here we are! Afro-Peruvian children - CEDET, Plan and UNICEF
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Top 5 against racism and discrimination: girls and boys of African descent speak – CNOA
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© UNICEF/UN034611/LeMoyne
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In co-creation with Afro-Colombian children, the National Convergence of Afro-Colombian Organizations (CNOA) has been working since 2013 on this project for the production of communicative content for the self-recognition of Afro-Colombian children.
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In Los Malucos, Dominican Republic, electricity arrives at school and the life of the entire community changes.
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In 2017, and within the framework of the commitment to implement the International
Decade for People of African Descent, the United Nations system in Brazil launched the national campaign “Vidas Negras”. This initiative seeks to end violence against black youth in the country by attracting attention and raising awareness among the entire population.
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Doing capoeira at school is much more than a physical activity. In these courses culture and history are taught, broadening the horizons of diversity and representativeness of children.
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In Uruguay, teachers have a support book to work on situations of racial discrimination in the classroom and, at the same time, prevent them through practical exercises.
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… that children of African descent are more exposed to the worst forms of child labor?
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIVauHW07Ws
… that in several countries in Latin America teenage pregnancy is greater among Afrodescendants and that, for example, in Ecuador a quarter of Afrodescendent adolescents are mothers?
Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), based on special processing of census microdata through REDATAM 7.
… that in Brazil, young male of African descent are 2.5 times more likely to die as a result of violence than young non-Afrodescendants?
Source: IACHR Press Release, September 26, 2018.
…that only recently, on April 16, 2019, was the Chilean Afrodescendent Tribal People Recognition Law published?
Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
… that in Uruguay there exists a National Plan of Racial and Afrodescent Equity?
Source: Consejo de Equidad Racial y Afrodescendencia y MIDES (2019)
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