Racist Cartagena nightclubs to pay compensation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Racist Cartagena nightclubs to pay compensation
Friday, 27 May 2011 10:10
Jim Glade

The Constitutional Court ordered two well-known Cartagena nightclubs to pay two women who they denied entry to because of the color of their skin Caracol Radio reported Friday.

Two sisters, Johana and Lena Acosta Romero, filed complaints against the La Carbonera and QKA-YITO night clubs in Cartagena after they were denied entry on December 25, 2004, because the two females are black.

The court's ruling overturns a lower Cartagena court's verdict which denied the two financial compensation for the discrimination.

According to reports, the women went out with their friends to celebrate Christmas in the "Zona Rosa" district of the city. After being denied entry to both clubs, bouncers at the front of each club told them they were denied entry because they were black.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16576-racist-cartagena-nightclubs-to-pay-compensation.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. It's important to remember Colombia is the 3rd largest recipient of annual foreign aid gifts. n/t

[COLGATE4]

3. And that would be relevant to this story how???

[Very_Boring_Name]

4. No... not important whatsoever as it has absolutely nothing to do with the story

[classysassy]

2. Racism around the world

will eventually destroy mankind.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Racism Still Rife In Colombian Capital

April 10, 2011 · 2:14 pm
Racism Still Rife In Colombian Capital

Racist undercurrents, discrimination and segregation are still plaguing the Colombian capital of Bogota, newspaper El Espectador reported Saturday.

In the International Year of African Descendants, the news comes as a blow to a country whose African population have suffered centuries of discrimination since colonization.

There are almost 10,000 people of African or indigenous descent living in Bogota, around 10% of the population, constituting the poorest sector of the population in terms of education, living conditions, health and economic progress.

Direct racism is also evident in the city. A sign in a window read “Apartment for rent: but not for a black”. An Afrocolombian girl in Bogota recalled ringing up about an apartment, “When you say you are black, they respond, we don’t rent to blacks.”

More:
http://racismdaily.com/2011/04/10/racism-still-rife-in-colombian-capital/

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Genocide of African-Colombians
Posted: Sunday, June 2, 2002

by Willie Thompson, Jun 02, 2002

Choco, Colombia, South America, is the ancestral home of 18 million poor and marginalized African Colombians. On May 2, 302 people, 32 percent of the population of Bellavista, a town in Choco of more than 800 people, were killed, wounded or disappeared. Four other massacres have been committed against these small internally displaced African Colombians - at La Mejor Esquina, Machuca, El Naya and Baudo. These massacres reaffirm the charges by African Colombians that they have been targeted for physical and cultural genocide.

The Unified African Colombian Movement, in an email on May 9, says that the current massacre of African Colombians is related to the "massive abduction of women and men from Africa to be enslaved in the Americas." The enslavement of our ancestors, the report continues, "was one of the most abominable violations of human rights. ... Enslavement violated the right to life, to liberty, to the family, to sexuality, to religion and to the exercise of our right to think freely for ourselves."

The Movement believes that the world is witnessing the extermination of African Colombians, emphasizing that the "barbarities committed against civil society and the holocaust at Bojaya are historical war crimes that damage the consciousness and human dignity." This is a clear allusion to the United Nations' Final Resolution and Plan of Action that makes crimes against humanity actionable under the U.N. Charter.

These acts as well as the social and economic conditions of the African Colombians, which are worse now, 150 years after enslavement ended, deserve to be repudiated by the national and international communities. The Unified African Colombian Movement invited all institutions and the social and political groups throughout the country to convene on May 8, 2002, to demand an end to violence and the exclusion of the African Colombian population from the armed conflict. Further, the Movement demands that the United Nations Human Rights Commission against Racism be invited to Colombia.

More:
http://www.raceandhistory.com/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1023007854,20280,.shtml