The University of Texas at Austin

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

UT students during Colombia Spring Break Project

Afro-Colombian Property Rights

The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice sponsored a fact-finding mission to Colombia during spring break (March 10-18, 2007) to study Afro-Colombian human rights issues. The trip was also sponsored by the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies and the Human Rights Law Society. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Sociolegal Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Los Andes and the Social Studies Center of the Humanities Faculty at the National University of Colombia. Finally, the trip was made possible by the generous contributions of several private donors, to whom we are very grateful. Learn more about the spring break project here. You can read the report produced by our interdisciplinary delegation and the memorandum sent to Congress below.


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''Unfulfilled Promises and
Persistent Obstacles to the
Realization of the Rights of
Afro-Colombians''
(.pdf)
''Promesas Incumplidas y
Obstáculos Persistentes para
la Realización de los Derechos
de los Afrocolmbianos.''

(Summarized Spanish translation
of our Colombia report)
Memo: "Afro-Colombian Human Rights: The Implication for U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement." (.pdf) Memo: ''Derechos Humanos Afro Colombianos: Las Implicaciones del acuerdo de Libre Comercio entre los EE.UU. y Colombia.''  (.pdf)