Race and Equality

Combating Discrimination. Empowering Individuals. Promoting Human Rights.

Learn more about our work to promote and protect the human rights of historically marginalized populations in Latin America and get involved.

Combating Discrimination. Empowering Individuals. Promoting Human Rights.

Learn more about our work to promote and protect the human rights of historically marginalized populations in Latin America and get involved.

Combating Discrimination. Empowering Individuals. Promoting Human Rights.

Learn more about our work to promote and protect the human rights of historically marginalized populations in Latin America and get involved.

Combating Discrimination. Empowering Individuals. Promoting Human Rights.

Learn more about our work to promote and protect the human rights of historically marginalized populations in Latin America and get involved.

Our Mission

Promote and Protect Human Rights

The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights challenges discrimination, inequality, and injustice and amplifies the new voices of local activists in Latin America to promote, protect, and fulfill human rights.

Our vision is an equal society for all based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; one without racial, ethnic, or gender discrimination, or discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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What We Do

Empower local activists to expose human rights violations

As a human rights capacity-building organization, Race and Equality works hand in hand with local activists to strengthen their ability to document and expose human rights violations related to racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We advocate for legal and policy reform at the national level, using strategic litigation at the regional and international levels, and advocate before the international community on critical human rights issues, including at the United Nations and regional bodies.

Legal Advocacy

Ensuring partners’ access to justice through a three-fold approach – Capacity-building, Emergency legal response, and Strategic litigation.

Capacity Building

Providing training on important human rights protection mechanisms. Lending technical assistance in the production of human rights reports to key regional and international stakeholders.

Human Rights Documentation

Becoming a hub of information and engaging in key debates on human rights issues affecting marginalized communities in Latin America.

who we fight for

Marginalized and vulnerable populations

We implement a dynamic, intersectional approach to promote human rights and combat discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Our work largely focuses on the rights of Afro-Latinos, LGBTI+ persons, indigenous peoples, women, and other marginalized communities.

Join Our Efforts

Help empower individuals and communities to achieve structural changes in Latin America.