igualdade racial

• Legislative Efforts Made for Afro-Latinos

Of course, there are different ideas about what the government is doing and if it's enough, this is only natural," Edson Santos, Brazil's former minister of the "Secretaria Especial de Políticas de Promoçào da Igualdade Racial Special," or Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality, told Afropress. com. "But all segments of the Black movement agree that we have to have this statute. We have to have something. In Honduras, the national Congress has passed legislation to create a "Secretaria para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afrohondureños y Políticas de Igualdad Racial," or Secretariat to Promote the Development of Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples (SEDINAFROPIR). "Five-hundred and eighteen years have passed since the collision of our three worlds: America, Africa ...

• New York Amsterdam News
• November 24, 2010

• Durban Review Conferences Begin with Activists at the Helm

The human rights activists who met recently in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia from June 13-15 to take part in the "Civil Society Forum of the Americas, Preparatory to the Durban Review Conference" were greeted by Edson Santos, Brazil's minister of SEPPIR-the Secretaria Especial de Politicas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial (Special secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality; www.presidencia.gov.br/seppir). SEPPIR-a governmentlevel ministry that promotes equal rights-represented the Brazilian government's sponsorship of the Civil Society Forum. Co-sponsored with various United Nations agencies, Brazil played host to this first official follow-up to the U.N.'s "World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" (WCAR), which was held in Dur...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 27, 2009