The Ecuador Report
The Rapoport Center’s report on Afro-Ecuadorian rights is the third in a series of reports on Afro-descendant land rights in South America. The report, Forgotten Territories, Unrealized Rights: Rural Afro-Ecuadorians and their Fight for Land, Equality, and Security, is the product of a nearly year-long research project conducted by the Rapoport Center, and includes the findings of a delegation that visited Ecuador in March 2009. The delegation was comprised of the Center’s director, Professor Karen Engle, and students from The School of Law, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, and LBJ School of Public Affairs. Read more...
Press Releases
- New Report Finds that Ecuador Fails to Protect the Land Rights of Afro-Ecuadorian Communities
November 10, 2009
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice has released a report documenting Ecuador's failures to protect the land rights of rural Afro-Ecuadorians guaranteed by the Ecuadorian constitution and international human rights law. - Human Rights Clinic at UT Law releases Abra Pampa report
(Spanish version)
October 28, 2009
Residents of Abra Pampa, Argentina, a poor and largely indigenous mining community near the Bolivian border, suffer dire mining-related health and environmental consequences, says the University of Texas School of Law Human Rights Clinic.
Upcoming Events
- "A Human Rights Perspective on Unparented Children & International Adoption."
Monday, February 8, 2010
Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program. - "Armed Conflict and Collective Rights in the Southern Pacific Region of Colombia"
Monday, February 22, 2010
Eduardo Restrepo, Professor of Anthropology at the Pontífica Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. - Annual Conference: "Walls: What They Make and What They Break"
February 25-26, 2010
Joint Conference with The Texas International Law Journal
Walls, symbolic and real, have consequences not only for people and polities, but for the surrounding – and enclosed – national and cultural environments as well. Walls impact both ways of thinking and modalities of living. The conference will convene a group of interdisciplinary thinkers who have researched the recent history of walls – made, unmade, in the making – and their consequences on the geographies of nation states and their neighbors, of communities both domestic and international, virtual and everyday.
