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Since 2014, we have been educating and organizing for human rights,
democracy, and racial justice throughout the Americas. Through three focus areas, AfroResistance has worked to ensure that Black women and girls are leading movements for true liberation and equality.

ADVOCACY

We provide Analysis, Data and Reports from the region centered on Black Women and Girls from Latin America and the Caribbean

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

We work to build an intentional, international, and political movement for social justice and human rights in the Americas

CAPACITY BUILDING

We deliver popular human rights education focused on race, gender, and immigration for people of African descent to ensure that they are empowered as decision-makers.

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The Script of Violence: How Bocas del Toro Exposes Panama's Colonial Wounds. Part 1

The internet went out in Bocas del Toro on Saturday morning. As dawn rose over Panama's Caribbean province, residents found themselves...

Janvieve Williams Comrie

6 min read

Anti-Black violence in Colombia article - map highlighting southwestern regions affected by pre-electoral necropolitical violence

Necropolitics: Anti-Black Violence in Pre-Electoral Times in Colombia

A recent wave of violence is shaking southwestern Colombia, making Afrodescendant territories its primary target. These events reflect a criminal pattern: the intimidation of political elites toward peoples who refuse to remain subjected to the normative scheme of white domination. In this new struggle for power in Colombia, Black lives once again become the most exposed to targeting, patrolling, and elimination."

Mauri Balanta Jaramillo

3 min read

PANAMA UNDER AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME, COMPLICIT MEDIA AND UNPUNISHED FEMINICIDES

Panama is living under an authoritarian regime where students are beaten, union leaders imprisoned, and indigenous peoples gassed. President José Raúl Mulino's government serves corporate oligarchy while justice shows its racist face. Political prisoners Genaro López and Jaime Caballero are held in maximum security alongside violent criminals, while media outlets become government mouthpieces. Women face unpunished femicides as the state prioritizes repressing protests over s

AfroResistance

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"The solutions for my community have to arise from my community with a racial justice lens to resolve those issues."

— Janvieve Williams Comrie, AfroResistance Executive Director

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