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Dominican Republic celebrates the Week of the Solidarity With the Peoples That Struggle Against Racism and Racial Discrimination |
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Organized by the UNESCO National Dominican Commission through the Dominican APSNet within the project “Breaking the Silence”
23 April 2007/ National Dominican Commission for UNESCO
During the week of March 21 to 27, 2007, the Dominican Republic celebrated the Week of the Solidarity with the Peoples That Struggle against Racism and Racial Discrimination, organized by the National Dominican Commission for UNESCO, through the Dominican UNESCO APSNet (RedPEA) within the project “Breaking the Silence”.
Sociologist Ivonne Arias de Incháustegui inaugurated the program with the lecture The African Continent: Migration, Cultural Influence, Fauna, Flora and Genetics.
Teachers and students from the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network in Dominican Republic developed a comprehensive program of activities as part of their project “All equal in diversity: mobilize schools against racism, discrimination and exclusion", under the educational project Trans Atlantic Slave Trade “Breaking the Silence”.
Mention should be made of the workshop-concert on drums especially devoted to teachers of the UNESCO Associated Schools with African and Afro-Cuban traditional music with drummers Miguel Fenton, Denis Ángeles and Geo Repelí, and an exhibition of posters, models, poetry, paintings and other research projects by the students of these schools.
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Related Link(s): Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Policies, The Slave Route, Intercultural Dialogue |
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