Come join in a discussion with: Collins Magalasi, Executive Director, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD); Tirivangani Mutazu, Program Officer, AFRODAD; and Gail Hurley, Policy Specialist on Development Finance, UNDP. This event is sponsored by Jubilee USA Network, New Rules for Global Finance, Africa Action, Institute for Policy Studies, and TransAfrica Forum.

Hosted by: Africa Action, Africa Faith and Justice Network, Congo Global Action, Friends of the Congo, Institute for Policy Studies, TransAfrica Forum. June 30, 2010, 2:00 to 8:30 PM.

The Continental African Union Community Presents: African Liberators - The Founding Patriarchs and Matriarchs: The Legacies and Challenges, and Call to Our Generation.  African Liberation Day Symposium and Lunheon Tribute to Dorothy Height co-sponsored by TransAfrica Forum and Africa Action. May 21, 2010, 1:00 to 5:00 PM, Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC.

Join Jubilee USA, TransAfrica Forum, and Africa Action in welcoming renowned Kenyan educator, activist, and campaigner for social justice, Wahu Kaara. Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 1:00-2:00PM, at TransAfrica Forum.

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.

Presented by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and co-sponsored by Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Africa Action, John Hopkins School of Advanced Studies, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, American University’s Africa Council, Foreign Policy In Focus and TransAfrica Forum

Please join Senator Piedad Córdoba and two noted human rights activists, Danilo Rueda and Ivan Cepeda, for an in-depth update on the human rights situation in Colombia, with an emphasis on the peace and justice process and the situation of Afro-Colombians.

TransAfrica Forum and Institute for Policy Studies present a discussion with conference participants of the recent Durban Review Conference against racism in Geneva.

Please Join TransAfrica Forum and the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for a Brown Bag Lunch discussion with Afro-Venezuelan educator and activist Ángela Díaz on her experience in promoting intercultural education in Venezuela.

You are invited to a briefing/brown bag lunch with Nomboniso Gasa chair of South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality, who recently ended 21-day hunger strike that sought to draw international attention to the condition of Zimbabwe's political prisoners.

Global Rights, AFRODES USA, TransAfrica Forum, the U.S. Office on Colombia, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund and the Washington Office on Latin America cordially invite you to a discussion on current threats against the territorial rights of Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities including the internal armed conflict, violence generated by illegal armed groups, U.S. funded fumigation efforts and large scale economic projects.

This year Cuba celebrates the 50th year of their revolution; while U.S. relations have been hostile, the rest of the world has a vastly different view of and relationship with Cuba.

Sankofa Books and Videos, Friends of the Congo, The Institute for Policy Studies, and TransAfrica Forum invite you to join us in an historic gathering with the youngest son of Patrice Lumumba, on November 8, 2008.

Cameroonian and Congolese Students Demand That World Bank Avoid Repeating Mistakes
Monday, October 13, 2008

TransAfrica Forum Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library presents a
Viewpoint Lecture Series Discussion with Liberian Labor Leaders on Economic Justice and the Rights of Workers in Liberia on Thursday, June 26, 2008; 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Please Join TransAfrica Forum For a Presentation and Discussion on The Dynamics of Cultural Diversity Inclusion in Venezuela. Featuring Los Vasallos del Sol. Monday, May 12, 2008.