Supreme Court orders a COVID-19 response plan for quilombola communities

In RE 494601, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a Rio Grande do Sul law protecting animal sacrifice in religious rites, including Afro-Brazilian religions. The...

Demonstrations took place in major Brazilian cities amid a wave of global protest after George Floyd’s murder and amid domestic outrage over police violence, including the killing of João Pedro Mattos...

The National Coordination of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), joined by political parties, filed ADPF 742. The petition challenged federal omissions and demanded measures to protect...

João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a Black man, was beaten to death by private security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre on the eve of Black Consciousness Day. The killing intensified...

On Black Consciousness Day, demonstrators gathered at Carrefour locations and in public spaces to demand justice for João Alberto Silveira Freitas, killed the previous evening by security guards....

Brazil deposited its instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance with the Organization of American States. The...

Provisional Measure 1,154 reorganized Brazil’s ministries and included the Ministry of Racial Equality in the new federal structure. The ministry’s return represented a policy shift after years in...

Sanctioned on 11 January 2023, Law 14,532 amended Brazil’s racial crime law and Penal Code to classify racial insult as a crime of racism. It also addressed racist conduct in sporting and artistic...

Law 14,532 amended federal criminal law to classify racial insult as racism and establish penalties for religious racism, among other provisions. Its language gave legal force to the understanding...

Decree 11,447 instituted the Aquilomba Brasil Program and its governing committee to coordinate federal measures for quilombola rights. Its intersectoral mandate includes territory, infrastructure,...