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13
Mei
1997

Law 9,459 explicitly includes religion in anti-discrimination law

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📅 13 Mei 1997 📍 Brazil

Law 9,459 amended Brazil’s anti-discrimination statute to include prejudice based on ethnicity, religion, and national origin alongside race and color. For Afro-Brazilian communities, this offered a legal route to challenge discrimination against Candomblé and other African-derived religions. The law’s formal language did not itself ensure access to justice: underreporting, institutional bias, and the tendency to treat attacks on terreiros as isolated vandalism continued to obscure religious racism.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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Brazilian Congress

Presidency of the Republic