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      A transcript of a speech delivered by Rosie Douglas about strategies for Black liberation against the forces of global capitalism.

      The Working People's Alliance (WPA) is a democratic socialist party founded by the Marxist historian Walter Rodney. Formed by the unification of the Working People's Vanguard Party, the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, and the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, the WPA was a major critic of the …

      A statement from the Guyana Human Rights Association Support Group - Canada surveying on the state of human rights on the one year anniversary of the alleged state-sanctioned assassination of Guyanese historian Walter Rodney in 1980.

      Addressed to the Canadian public, this flyer calls for a national day of protest against the Canadian Government to stop the "racist" deportation of Haitians and of Dominican black nationalist Rosie Douglas, along with dropping charges against "Native Caravan" members who were demonstrating in front of Parliament in Ottawa.

      Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) Table of Contents. 1) The cover page for a report on the Miskito case between 1981 and 1984. 2) The Table of Contents lists the ten parts of the report: 1) Preface; 2) Background; 3) Forced Relocation; 4) The Miskitos Outside the Settlements; …

      This open letter to the Ecuadorian government by la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indigenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon) denounces the acts of genocide propagated by transnational companies such as the French company C.G.G. Aside from causing economic, social, cultural and ecological problems, …

      This report provides an example of the types denunciations that the Commission circulated about the terrible offenses against the human rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples.

      Spokesperson for the Zapatista Movement, Subcomandante Marcos, became an international anti-neoliberal celebrity. The rebellion was launched on the day that US, Mexico, and Canada signed a free-trade agreement, January 1, 1994.

      The Fourth Tribunal focused on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with special reference to the Guatemalan government's campaigns of abuse and terror against the Quiché people in favour of "generals, government officials, and agro-export estate owners aligned with foreign capital", especially with petroleum and mining interests.

      Scans of a section of Supysáua, a Documentary Report that can be found in the LAWG Collection, box "CF-BRA-03 (Box 8)", and folder "Brazil - Human Rights - Native Peoples 1973-1975" in the box ".

      Three items: 1) A letter; 2) a Cover Page; and 3) a transcribed presentation. 1) A letter from the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) to the Latin American Working Group (LAWG) that provides a brief summary of the "Peace, Autonomy and Human Rights" seminar that took place in Nicaragua …

      A statement by Dominicans in Support of Progress in defence of Desmond Trotter, a Black Dominican sentenced to execution for the alleged murder of an American white tourist in 1974. Trotter was represented by the later Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop.

      A People's Progressive Party (PPP) press release condemns the alleged state-sanctioned assassination of historian Walter Rodney. See also CERLAC Caribbean Section, P1-2 for additional items on the PPP and works written by its founder, Cheddy Jagan.

      The People's National Congress (PNC), founded by Forbes Burnham in 1957, was a Guyanese political party formed by the faction within the People's Progressive Party (PPP) opposed to Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. After Jagan's removal from office, the PNC assumed power and governed the country on a "cooperative socialist" agenda. …

      A report by the Americas Watch, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees focuses on the exploitation of Haitians employed in the Dominican sugar industry.

      Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) Table of Contents. 1) The cover page of a report on the relocation of Miskito Indigenous people in light of US intervention on the Atlantic Coast. 2) The table of contents details its ten parts: 1) Introduction; 2) a brief history of the …

      This document presents various laws related to Indigenous communities in Chile, specifically, laws that pertain to Mapuche, Mapuche-Huilliche, Rapa Nui, and Aymara peoples.

      An excerpt from a report on prison conditions in Jamaica from Human Rights Watch, it was issued after a delegation visited the island and inspected various detention centers, including Fort Augusta, the only correctional facility for women. The report seeks to call attention to human rights abuses of incarcerated women.

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      A report by the Americas Watch, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees deals with the human rights abuses of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.