(C) U.S. State Dept This story was originally published by U.S. State Dept and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . 2023 Global Anti-Racism Champions Award [1] [] Date: 2023-11 Oswaldo Bilbao Lobatón, an Afro-Peruvian activist, has spent more than four decades fighting for the recognition and rights for Afro-Peruvians, one of Peru’s least visible and most disadvantaged populations. He was part of the committee that organized the first meeting of Black communities in Peru in 1992, bringing together for the first time in its history more than 100 Afro-Peruvian representatives from around the country. Years later, he was part of the committee that organized meetings of communities in the north and south of Peru with the aim of promoting the national organization of Afro-Peruvians. In 1999, he was elected Executive Director of the Center for Ethnic Development – CEDET, an Afro-Peruvian technical organization that promotes social development and research projects in favor of Afro-Peruvian communities. He also trains youth to prepare them as future leaders. In 2015, CEDET was recognized with the Javier Perez de Cuellar Human Rights Award granted by the French Embassy. Oswaldo was a full member of the Inter-institutional Technical Committee on Ethnicity Statistics, and from that position he promoted the inclusion of the ethnic variable in the 2017 population census. In 2018, as the director of CEDET, he received the National Human Rights Award granted by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. Oswaldo has actively participated in multiple international conferences against racism and discrimination. He is currently a member of the International Coalition for the Defense, Conservation, Protection of Territories, Environment, Land Use, and Climate Change of Afro-descendant Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.state.gov/2023-global-anti-racism-champions-award/ Published and (C) by U.S. State Dept Content appears here under this condition or license: Public Domain. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/usstate/