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The majority of Colombians identify as being of either European or of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. The Afro-Colombian community has incorporated their African heritage in music, language, and religion.Against a backdrop of great ethnic diversity, minority groups in Colombia experience some degree of economic and social marginalization.
Mestizos found upward mobility easier than mulattoes in most areas, probably because mestizo physical characteristics were more like those of the idealized Colombian: light brown to white skin, straight or wavy hair, and caucasoid facial features. On this day, we bring awareness to the roles Afro-Descendant, Black, Raizal, and Palenque peoples have in constructing Colombia as a country and recovering Colombians historical memory. This is 16% down from the government's previous estimations in 2002, which put the total Afro-descendant population at 26% and which is the figure still currently used by the United Nations. Most of these indigenous groups live in isolated areas, mainly in the southern highlands, the arid Guajira Peninsula, the Amazon, and the forests found north and west of Cordilleras.
""There are progressive laws on the books, but they have not have been implemented. According to the census of 2005, the government estimates that Afro-descendants make up 10.6% of the total population.
This day was established by Law 725 of 2001, in order for Colombians to remember Black people’s struggles and fights to achieve their liberty.
The Institute also works to increase the capacity of Afro-Colombian lawyers to access and influence regional and international human rights bodies.The Institute strengthens the capacity of our counterparts and the leaders of the various countries in which we work, so that they may actively participate in the OAS General Assembly, the Summit of the Americas Process, the Inter-American Human Rights Protection System, as well as the United Nations committee that monitors the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the committee that monitors the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), through the provision of training, technical assistance, and political advocacy. Colombia boasts an ethnic diversity of around 85 different ethnic groups.
Latino however, is not a race, it is merely an ethnic group. As a result, majority of Colombians do not equate their nationality with their ethnicity but with allegiance to Colombia, while embracing and espousing the Race and ethnicity in Colombia descends mainly from three racial groups—Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans—that have mingled throughout the last 500 years of the country's history. These ethnic groups are at the center of fierce disputes, due to their location in resource-rich regions and geographically strategic parts of the country.