The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights

Is an international, human rights capacity-building organization that works side by side with activists in Latin America to enhance their ability to promote and protect the human rights of marginalized and vulnerable people who suffer from discrimination based on their national or ethnic origin, their sexual orientation or gender identity. We strengthen grassroots organizations, helping them to become political actors able to promote structural changes in the countries where we work. Our methodology consists of providing technical assistance in order to help our partners monitor and document human rights abuses and increase their advocacy capacity at the national, regional and international levels.

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Toward a Region Free from Racial Discrimination

Race and Equality has launched the regional campaign “Toward a Region Free from Racial Discrimination” in an effort to promote ratification and effective implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance (known as CIRDI, in Spanish) by the year 2024. The campaign will span the next three years and seek to combat racism and racial discrimination worldwide. It is made possible thanks to the support from a grant by the Apple Corporation. Read more about our efforts and keep up with the campaign by visiting the CIRDI 2024 site.

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Before the IACHR: State of Nicaragua fails to comply with precautionary measures granted in favor of independent journalists
Before the IACHR: State of Nicaragua fails to comply with precautionary measures granted in favor of independent journalists
December 17, 2021
Within the framework of the 182nd regular period of sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), this Tuesday, December 14th, independent journalists—the beneficiaries
Nicaragua: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on the Human Rights Council to take all measures within its power to promote accountability for serious violations 
Nicaragua: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on the Human Rights Council to take all measures within its power to promote accountability for serious violations 
December 16, 2021
Washington DC, December 15, 2021.- In compliance with Resolution 46/2 of the Human Rights Council on Nicaragua, the Deputy High Commissioner of the United Nations Office for Human Rights, Na...
Human Rights Day: Doubling efforts for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights During a Time of Authoritarianism and Hate Speech
Human Rights Day: Doubling efforts for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights During a Time of Authoritarianism and Hate Speech
December 10, 2021
Washington D.C., December 10, 2021.- Latin America is experiencing critical moments in terms of human rights. The arbitrary exercise of power and hate speech which pervades different spheres...
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND GRANT WRITING OFFICER
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND GRANT WRITING OFFICER
December 10, 2021
The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights is a human rights organization created in 2015 working in partnership with local activists in Latin America to build grass root...
Interview with Jurema Werneck: The resounding voice of the Ialodês on Black Consciousness Day
Interview with Jurema Werneck: The resounding voice of the Ialodês on Black Consciousness Day
December 7, 2021
To celebrate Black Consciousness Day, symbolized in Brazil as the memory and death of the quilombola leader Zumbi dos Palmares, the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights...
Cuba: IACHR Grants Precautionary Measures to Independent Journalist Héctor Valdés Cocho and Human Rights Defender Raúl Soublett López
Cuba: IACHR Grants Precautionary Measures to Independent Journalist Héctor Valdés Cocho and Human Rights Defender Raúl Soublett López
December 3, 2021
Washington D.C., December 3, 2021. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has granted precautionary measures to independent journalist Héctor Valdés Cocho and his partner Ra

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Our vision is an equal society for all based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one without racial, ethnic or gender discrimination, or discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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CARLOS QUESADA

Executive Director and Founder of the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights. Until October 2014 Carlos was Global Rights’ Director of the Ethnic and Racial Equality Program/Advisor on the Rights of LGBTI people. He is trained as a journalist and a lawyer. Carlos is working to combat racial and ethnic discrimination and discrimination based on a different sexual orientation and gender identity in the Americas and in some countries in Africa…

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The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights challenges discrimination, inequality and injustice and amplifies the new voices of local activists in Latin America to promote, protect, and fulfill human rights.

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The National Conference of Afro-Colombian Organizations (CNOA), is a national convergence of more than 270 afro-descendant organizations…
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The Trans Support and Action Group Foundation – GAAT is a community-based social organization that works to defend and assert the human rights…
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Caribe Afirmativo seeks to advocate for the establishment and positioning of gender and sexual diversity agendas in the Caribbean region…
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