> > Regional Conference of the Americas
> > ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES IN THE PLAN OF ACTION AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL
> DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND CORRELATED INTOLERANCES
> > Brasilia, Brazil
> > July 26-28, 2006
> >
> > Conference web site:
> http://www.americascontraracismo.com.br/english/index.cfm
> >
> >
> > Presentation
> >
> > The Regional Conference of the Americas - Advances and Challenges in the
> Plan of Action against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
> Correlated Intolerances will happen from July 26th to July 28th, 2006, in
> Bras璱ia, Brazil.
> > The conference will gather 400 participants, amongst government members,
> civil society and guests, to point the advances of the public politics for
> racial equality developed by the governments, which emphasizes the
> interchange of good practice, since the Pre-conference of Santiago (2000),
> preparing to the 3rd World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination,
> Xenophobia and Correlated Intolerances that occurred in Durban, South
> Africa.
> > After six years, the American countries come back together to evaluate
the
> advances, share the results, discuss the problems in the implementation of
> the Plan of Action of Durban, trace the challenges and propose alternative
> ways for the accomplishment of equality.
> > The Regional Conference of the Am廨icas will be presided by the Minister
> of the Special Secretariat of Politics to Promote Racial Equality, Matilde
> Ribeiro, and it will count with the presences of the President of the
> Republic of Brazil, Luiz In塶io Lula da Silva and the Minister of Foreign
> Affairs, Celso Amorim.
> >
> > Antecedents
> > Durban - a new way
> >
> > The Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
> Xenophobia and Correlated Intolerances held in 2001 was the third world
> conference on racism. The two preceding ones, 1978 and 1983, were
dedicated
> to apartheid and Zionism.
> >
> > The Conference evidenced that racism is a reality in all the societies
and
> that it is a threatening for the security and stability of the countries.
It
> is necessary to examine its historical, socioeconomic and cultural causes
to
> face such a reality. Thence the inscription of slavery and slave traffic
on
> the agenda of the Conference: these crimes were justified due to the
> victims' race. It was necessary to analyze the causes, effects and sequels
> of such activity, justified by the dangerous theory of the hierarchy of
the
> human races. This theory is at the origins of some contemporary patterns
of
> racism.
> > The Durban Conference came out in a favorable context for raising the
> awareness about the link between some determined situations of inequality
> and structural injustice and some tragedies of the past. The great advance
> of the meeting was "the recognition that slavery is a crime against
humanity
> and that it should have been considered so, a long time ago," says General
> Sub-Director of Human and Social Sciences of the United Nations for the
> Education, Science and Cultura (UNESCO), Pierre Sane.
> >
> > The main points of controversy are related to the requests of reparation
> for the slavery crimes, slavery traffic and colonization. Therein, Durban
> opened a breach. "It is not the end of a process, but rather, the
beginning
> of a long negotiation. I refer to financial compensation, for I do not
> believe that, keeping in sight the universal values shared nowadays, other
> kinds of reparation such as the duty of memory and recognition of the
crime
> would not have provoked such controversies
> >
> > Concretizations
> >
> > The last decade of the XX century was marked by intense debate about the
> theme of discrimination and all kinds of intolerance, mainly when
> reaffirming the necessity of urgent measures to intensify the fight
against
> racism and discrimination wherever it occurs.
> > Government, democratic agencies and representatives from the most
diverse
> nations and the United Nations have partaken in this struggle with
> initiatives on various levels. Seventeen countries have created instances
> dedicated to the treatment of the theme.
> > In the multilateral plan, the results of Durban Conference propitiated
the
> establishment of three mechanisms to accompany its recommendations: an
> intergovernmental committee, a group of five eminent specialists and a
group
> of work dedicates exclusively to afro-descendants.
> > In the regional plan, we emphasize the work by the Special
Representation
> against Racism, Discrimination and Correlated Intolerances, linked with
the
> Commission of Human Rights of the AEO (American States Organization). The
> following initiatives have kept the theme of promoting racial equality in
> evidence within the region since the Durban Conference.
> >
> > 2002
> > Regional Seminar about the Afro-descendants in the Americas - March, in
> the city La Ceiba, Honduras;
> >
> > Regional Seminar of Specialists for the Latin America and the Caribbean
> about the implementation of the Program of Action, adopted in Durban -
> interchange of ideas for further actions - July in Mexico.
> >
> > 2003
> > Regional Workshop for the Adoption and Implementation of Affirmative
> Politics for Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean promoted
by
> the UN High Commissionaire - May, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
> >
> > 2004
> > First South American Appointment of State and Multilateral Organizations
> for Politics to Promote Racial Equality - November, in Montevideo,
Uruguay.
> >
> > Seminar - Goals of the Millennium in the Health Field with ethnic-racial
> emphasis. The event emphasized the Declaration and the Plan of Action of
> Durban, indicating strategies for the monitoring in the field of health
from
> the Ministry of Health - December, in Bras璱ia, Brazil
> >
> > 2005
> > Seminar Pueblos Ind璲enas y Afrodescendientes de Am廨ica Latina y el
> Caribe - Relev滱cia y Pertin瘽cia de la Informaci鏮 Sociodemogr塻ica para
> Politicas y Programas (Native Peoples and Afrodescendants of Latin America
> and the Carribbean - Relevance and Pertinence of the Socio-demographic
> Information for the Politics and Programs), promoted by Cepal (Economic
> Commission for Latin America) - April, in Chile;
> >
> > Pre-conference of the Americas - a moment when the commitment to put the
> Regional Conference of the Americas into practice in Brazil was reaffirmed
> with the support of the government of Chile - from August 10th to 12th, in
> Santiago, Chile;
> >
> > Regional Workshop for the Americas on Strategies for the Inclusion of
> Afro-descendants in the Programs to Reduce Poverty, especially in the
> Objectives of Development of the Millennium - November, in Chincha, Peru.
> >
> > 2006
> > Meeting of the Consulting Group of the Afro-descendant Leaders to
strength
> the dialogue amongst entities dedicated to the fighting against racism -
> March, in Panama City, Panama.
> >
> > Conference web site:
> http://www.americascontraracismo.com.br/english/index.cfm
> >
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