EVENT INFORMATION

4
July
1991

The new Constitution recognizes ethnic and cultural diversity

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📅 4 July 1991 📍 Colombia

Colombia's Constituent Assembly signed and approved a new Constitution recognizing the country's ethnic and cultural diversity. Indigenous rights and a transitional provision concerning Black communities created important bases for collective claims. The change challenged an exclusionary model of nationhood, while recognition still required laws, resources and enforcement.

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Organizations in this Event

National Constituent Assembly

Indigenous organizations

Afro-Colombian communities