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8 Sep 2020

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Organizations of peoples of African descent participating in the Virtual Seminar "Afro-descendant Communities in the Business Context of Latin America and the Caribbean"

RECOMMENDATIONS TO LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STATES, BUSINESSES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND UN AND INTER-AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS

...RECOMMENDATIONS TO BUSINESSES

● Develop their actions with due diligence, including respect for the territories of traditional occupation, respect for development priorities and life plans of peoples and communities of African descent.

● Respect for the decisions of the Quilombola peoples and Afro-descendents that are taken by their own legitimate institutions; among them, opposition to extractive concessions in their ancestral territories.

● That the role of the States not be abrogated and supplanted, especially with regard to donations to alleviate the consequences of Covid-19, without respecting food habits, the real needs of ending racism and the exclusion of our peoples.

● Abstain from capturing States, through corruption and bribery to advance their proposals, dividing our communities...

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