HAVANA, Cuba. – The United Nations system in Cuba and the Quisicuaba community project celebrated this Friday in Havana the International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day, to support the fight against racial discrimination.

Dalia Acosta, officer of the UN system, noted this date is inserted in the International Decade for Afro-descendants, and seeks recognition of that community in the world.

He pointed out this commemoration responds to the fifth objective of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has as its main goal to end all forms of discrimination against women.

The International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day is held every July 25, after the first Meeting of Afro-descendant Women in the Dominican Republic in 1992.