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<description>Latest Americas news from Minority voices.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Peru: ¡Aquí estamos! Niñas, niños y adolescentes afroperuanos</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1420/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1420/</guid>
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<title>Full length documentary from MRG and Hollman Morris: Suárez Gold - Afro-Colombian miners defending their heritage</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1416/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1416/</guid>
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<title>Guyana: Court ruling violates indigenous peoples' rights</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1370/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Controversial Court decision favours miners over indigenous peoples as country sinks to new low on double standards on human rights and development

On&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1370/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Defeating Invisibility - Landscapes of Violence and Human Rights Violations Against Afro-descendant Women</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1361/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1361/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Short film on the exploitation of natural resources, conflict and displacement</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1357/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1357/</guid>
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<title>Belize: EIA 'consultation' neither free nor fair</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1297/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1297/</guid>
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<title>Event: Brussels screening of new MRG film on discrimination in Africa and the Caribbean</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1201/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1201/</guid>
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<title>Jamaica/Global: Marcus Garvey's Legacy</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1179/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The article is titled " Marcus Garvey's Legacy " which gives a comprehensive analysis of the life of Marcus Garvey and the impact he still has on the contemporary&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1179/</guid>
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<title>Suriname: Saramaka win case in human rights court </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1153/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1153/</guid>
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<title>Afro-Colombian women defend their heritage</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1158/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1158/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: San Juan community assert their rights  </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1149/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1149/</guid>
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<title>Chile: Anti-terror law used against Mapuche activists </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1121/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1121/</guid>
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<title>Peru: Afro-Peruvians submit report to UN human rights committee</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1089/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1089/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Interview with Hollman Morris, director of MRG documentary 'Suarez Gold'</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1076/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Thursday 26th April, Amnesty hosted the screening of a new documentary produced by the Minority Rights Group (MRG) on Afro-descendant rights and mining&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1076/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Interview with Dr Andy Higginbottom on the links between mining, militarisation and displacement</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1077/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Thursday 26th April, Amnesty hosted the screening of a new documentary produced by the Minority Rights Group (MRG) on Afro-descendant rights and mining&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1077/</guid>
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<title>The global pandemic of environmental racism and corporate impunity</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1025/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The global pandemic of environmental racism and corporate impunity
By Chizom Ekeh
Friday 3 March 2012
The indigenous Uwa peoples of northern Colombia&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1025/</guid>
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<title>MRG Podcast: February 2012</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1013/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1013/</guid>
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<title>Minorities at the UN: Eradicate racism towards Afro-Latinas in Latin America</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1007/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1007/</guid>
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<title>Honduras: Preserving native Bay Island culture and involving youth on Roatan Island</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1012/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1012/</guid>
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<title>Guatemala: Stove project to improve cooking methods </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/992/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Guatemalan Stove Project is a small charity based in Perth, Ontario. By raising small sums of money (around $250.), Canadians are able to work with&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/992/</guid>
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<title>African Canadians: Navigating the Ontario justice system & rebuilding young lives</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/989/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/989/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Un poema sobre la solidaridad entre los pueblos</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/952/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/952/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: nuevo documental - Hacienda Cañasgordas: Arqueología del Relato</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/947/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ El documental relata la historia de la Hacienda Cañasgordas en Cali - Colombia, sus particularidades arquitectónicas y el origen de sus esclavos; la&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/947/</guid>
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<title>MRG Podcast: November 2011</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/910/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/910/</guid>
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<title>New documentary from MRG and Hollman Morris: Suárez Gold: Afro-Colombian miners defending their heritage</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/905/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/905/</guid>
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<title>Nuevo documental de MRG y Hollman Morris: El Oro para Suárez - Mineros afrocolombianos defendiendo sus raíces</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/900/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/900/</guid>
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<title>Dominican Republic:  Marginalized, harrassed and criminalized</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/895/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/895/</guid>
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<title> Panama: Afropanamanian Newsletter October 2011</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/860/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/860/</guid>
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<title>Costa Rica: Final Declaration of the First World Conference on Afrodescendant Youth  </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/861/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/861/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Land rights defenders remain under threat  </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/862/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/862/</guid>
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<title>Argentina: Programa Radial sobre la Legitimización de las tierras Mocovies</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/853/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Programa Indo Afro América “Un programa por los derechos de las Minorías”

Radio Nacional Santa Fé
	
Entrevista vía telefónica con Manuel&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/853/</guid>
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<title>Argentina: Radio programme on the Barlovento Group</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/852/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Programa dedicado al encuentro realizado en Barlovento en Marzo 2003.

Investigadores de comunidades afro descendientes de países de América describieron&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/852/</guid>
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<title>Argentina: Radio Programme on African-descendant self-recognition in the Americas</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/854/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Programa Indo Afro América “Un programa por los derechos de las Minorías”

Radio Nacional Santa Fé

Programa dedicado al proceso de autoreconocimiento&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/854/</guid>
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<title>Ecuador: Indigenous justice and Ecuadorian state laws. Interview with Ecuadorian lawyer Mercedes Zambrano</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/845/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/845/</guid>
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<title>Panama: Current reality and key concerns of the Afro-Panamanian population </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/846/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/846/</guid>
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<title>Interviews with activists: Patrick Kensenhuis, Member of The National Assembly of the Republic of Suriname</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/761/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/761/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Strengthening Afro-descendant Community Councils, part I</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/762/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/762/</guid>
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<title> Colombia: Strengthening Afro-descendant Community Councils, part II</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/763/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/763/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Community Councils bring real and lasting benefits for african descendants</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/760/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/760/</guid>
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<title>Interviews with activists: Sidney Francis, President of the Central American Black Organization  </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/764/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/764/</guid>
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<title>San Andres, Colombia - We stay with nothing</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/704/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/704/</guid>
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<title>Argentina: 2010 Census - Successful or not?</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/700/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/700/</guid>
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<title>Argentina: IT'S HARD TO BE BLACK HERE </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/699/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/699/</guid>
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<title>Cowboys vs. Indians in Nicaragua's 'Wild East'</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1075/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ As Nicaragua gears up for the elections that will determine whether the country sticks with the current trend for left-leaning Latin American governments,&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1075/</guid>
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<title>Belize: SATIIM's Oil Summit</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/609/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Dear all
 
On Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th March the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management held a district summit. It was a huge success&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/609/</guid>
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<title>MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN PERU</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/580/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Every eight hours a woman dies in Peru from pregnancy complications or during  childbirth. 45 percent of the deaths that take occur in  Peru are of afroperuanos&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/580/</guid>
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<title>Canada: Interview with Chief Wilton Littlechild</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/581/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In June 2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public apology to Canada's 80,000 First Nation residential school survivors and expressed&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/581/</guid>
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<title>Afro descendant in the Americas: A Struggle for Recognition</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/579/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The United Nations and the Organization of American States has decreed 2011 to be the Year of African descendants.
 ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/579/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: estudio sobre la comunidad de mineros de Buenos Aires, Cauca</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1098/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Hoy en día, principio del siglo XXI con todo su adelanto tecnológico, globalización y su renovada forma de pensar, podemos notar cómo este desarrollo&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1098/</guid>
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<title>Peru: Addressing the needs of marginalized communities in policy formulation and programming </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/549/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/549/</guid>
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<title>Young Journalist Award runner up: Respect Wanted: Domestic Workers in Bolivia</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/684/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Minority Rights Group International launched the Minority Voices Young Journalist Award, a prize for young professionals and student journalists keen to&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/684/</guid>
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<title>MRG Podcast: November 2010</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/506/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/506/</guid>
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<title>La Esgrima de Machete y Bordón Símbolo Cultural de Puerto Tejada Cauca- Colombia</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/498/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Es una cartilla de 20 páginas, sobre una investigación que se realizó, con la comunidad afrodescendiente de Puerto Tejada Cauca, Colombia. En este material&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/498/</guid>
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<title>Photo story: a trip to El Carmen, the cradle of Afro-Peruvian culture </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/442/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/442/</guid>
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<title>Colombia: Ruta Pacífica rechaza acciones guerreristas contra organizaciones de mujeres y defensoras de Derechos Humanos</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/333/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Ruta Pacífica rechaza acciones guerreristas contra organizaciones de mujeres y defensoras de Derechos Humanos

 

Las intimidaciones provienen de&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/333/</guid>
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<title>Boletin Informativo JENHeration</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/315/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Boletin informativo del Movimiento de Jóvenes Estableciendo Nuevos Horizontes JENH-CEDEHCA acerca de las actividades desarrollas en la Costa Caribe  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/315/</guid>
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<title>Garifunas en Nicaragua</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/316/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Jóvenes Garifunas participan en taller de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/316/</guid>
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<title>Canada: Racism Reborn</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/686/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ This video footage is showing how racial discrimination is exercised in the urban city, Calgary in Canada.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plQpLPy1eao

Part&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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