TransAfrica Forum, Institute for Policy Studies, Africa Action, and HealthGAP invite you to a discussion with Soweto human rights activist Virginia Magwaza Setshedi. Friday, February 12, 2010, 11:00am. 

Olivier Bancoult, President of the Chagos Refugees Group will discuss expulsion of the Chagossian people from Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, October 6, 6:30-8:00 PM.

Please join Professors Gerónimo Sanchez Garcia and Alejandro Correa Ortega from the Instituto de Barlovento (IUB) of Venezuela. The IUB was founded in 1991 in Higuerote, Central Venezuela and currently serves as one of the only historically Black institutions of higher education in Latin America. Professors Sanchez and Correa will speak about the history of Afro-descendants in Venezuela and current priorities related to access to education and civic engagement.