Inaugural Latin American Afrodescendent Women Leaders’ Summit brings Afro-Latina leaders together to address community security

• The summit convened in Managua, Nicaragua, bringing leaders together to address such issues as black women’s rights and protections, health, education, the environment, poverty reduction, and public services access.
• Organizers aimed to use the discussions to adopt a shared political platform for Afro-Latinas throughout Latin America to combat the disproportionate impact of poverty and other socioeconomic barriers on black women.
• Afro-Latinos make up between 20 and 30% of the population in Latin America, with complex histories of colonization, slavery, and migration making identification uneven.

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(Image Credit: Network of Afroamerican, Afrocaribbean, and Diasporic Women; via teleSUR)