TransAfrica Forum envisions a world where Africans and people of African descent are equal participants in a just international system.  To this end we promote partnership with Afro-descendants in Latin America and support their efforts toward equity, democracy, sustainable economic and environmental development, and their inclusion in national, regional, and global affairs.

In addition to its country-specific work, TransAfrica Forum’s Latin American and the Caribbean Program often works at a regional level to increase awareness of the impact of U.S. policy on Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean through policy/press statements, dialogues, media work and other events.

Other Regional Work:

• TransAfrica Forum Recognizes Accord to Return Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to Office

• Action Alert! Honduran Soldiers Raid First Hospital in Black Garifuna Community October 2009

• Destruction of the Black Garifuna Peoples—Declared By UNESCO A Cultural Heritage of Humanity

• Request that the U.S. President Barack Obama Meet Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (August 2009)

• Briefing --The Implications of the Coup in Honduras on Afro-Descendants (July 2009)

• TransAfrica Forum Calls on Obama to Take Concrete Action to Restore Democracy in Honduras (June 2009)

• Change Must Come to the Americas (April 2009)

• Letter to President Barack Obama: A Just Message to the Summit of the Americas (April 2009)

• The Obama Administration “Will Not Engage” the Durban Review Conference Follow-up to the 2001 World Conference on Racism (March 2009)

• The Truth of Trickle-Down Economics (April 2009)

• Global Trade – Free for a Wealthy Few, Costly For Many (October 2008)

• Discussion on Just Immigration Policies for Black Immigrants (October 2008)

External LAC Resources (English):

• African Diaspora in Latin America – LANIC

• A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

• Afro-Latinos (Series Documental) - English  

• Afro-Latinos in Latin America and Considerations for U.S. Policy (Congressional Research Service)

• The World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

• Vida Afro-Latina

• Afro-Presencia

• Latin American and Caribbean Community Center

External LAC Resources (Spanish):

• Afro-Latinos (Serie Documental) - Spanish

• Observatorio de Discriminación Racial  

• Organización de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario (ODECO)

• Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN)

• Historia del pueblo afrocolombiano - Perspectiva pastoral

• Actualidad Etnica

• Compendio normativo: Acciones afirmativas a favor del
  pueblo afrodescendiente de América Latina y legislación antidiscriminatoria

• Black Latino.net