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Brazilian Congress
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Law 7,716 defines crimes of racial discrimination
📅 5 January 1989Brazil sanctioned Law 7,716, defining offences based on prejudice of race or colour, including discriminatory exclusion from employment and access to services. It supplied criminal-law mechanisms...
Law 10.639 makes Afro-Brazilian history and culture compulsory in schools
📅 9 January 2003Brazil enacted Law 10.639, requiring the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture in primary and secondary education. Its prescribed content included African history and Black struggles and...
Brazil adds Indigenous history and culture to compulsory school teaching
📅 10 March 2008Law 11.645 extended curriculum requirements to include Indigenous history and culture alongside Afro-Brazilian content. It recognized Black and Indigenous contributions to Brazil's formation and their...
Brazil enacts the Statute of Racial Equality
📅 20 July 2010Law 12.288 established Brazil's Statute of Racial Equality, addressing equal opportunity and the defense of Black people's individual, collective and cultural rights. Its provisions covered areas...
A federal quota law widens access to universities
📅 29 August 2012Brazil enacted Law 12.711, reserving half of places in federal higher-education institutions for students from public secondary schools, with income and racial provisions. The policy included Black,...