Uncensored Stories with Tom Canetti

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Uncensored Stories with Tom Canetti Podcast

Tom interviews relatable people with raw, uncensored stories. Topics include psychology, politics, violence, sex, drugs & mental health.

  1. 14/05/2021

    #17 Colombian protests, police brutality and systematic racism: Charo Mina-Rojas

    Charo exposes the horrific details of the human rights abuses currently being committed in Colombia. She talks about disappearing protestors, the police’s use of live rounds against unarmed civilians, neoliberal inequality, narco-trafficking, and the systematic oppression of afro-descendant and indigenous Colombians. Charo’s bio: Charo Mina-Rojas is a Colombian human rights defender with nearly 30 years of activism with the Black Communities Process –PCN. Mina-Rojas has served as National Coordinator of Advocacy and Outreach in the U.S, for PCN. She was part of the Ethnic Commission that worked to ensure the inclusion of the Ethnic Chapter in the Final Peace Agreement, which contains specific provisions to ensure the protection and advancement of Afro-descendant collective rights. Currently, she coordinates the "Afro-Colombian Initiative for Gender and Peace Justice, 2021", that recently organized the Community hearing “Development and Racism: Realities and Impacts of Violence against Black/Afro-Descendant Women in Our Various Identities”, on April 19th, 2021. A recognized human rights defender and leading Black feminist scholar and public speaker, Mina-Rojas has authored several articles on the plight of Afro-Colombia women and women in Latin America, and has provided expert testimony on human rights before the committees of the United States Congress, Interamerican Commission for Human Rights, and various organs of the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council where she became the first Afro-descendant woman to testify as such before the United Nations Security Council on racial and gender violence against black/afrodescendant women in Colombia and Latin America.

    1h 8m

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