#VidasNegras: 'Do not leave anyone behind means consider the entire population in its diversity'

Brasilia, 5 January 2018 - "To leave no one behind means to consider the entire population in its diversity - and among it, no doubt, the black population in Brazil, Latin America and the world," says Laís Abramo, director of the Division of Social Development of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), one of the 26 UN agencies promoting the #VidasNegras (#BlackLives) Campaign to end violence against black youth.

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We thank our UN Online Volunteer, Juliana Nogueira, for her contribution to the translation of this article.  Juliana is an online volunteer mobilised through www.onlinevolunteering.org.

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