Brazil 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 for antiracist claims following the 1988 Constitution. This entry concerns the original law, rather than provisions added by later amendments.
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The original text of Brazil's Law 7,716 contained every provision added to the law in later decades.
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The 1989 event concerns the original law defining crimes based on race or colour. Later amendments must not be projected back onto that date.