NGOs denounce Lula’s government for discrimination against Multiracials

April 5, 2006

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Several non-governmental organizations lodged a denunciation with  the Federal Public Prosecution Service on April 5, 2006,  against the Lula government. They charged the federal government  with practice of racial discrimination against the Multiracial (mestiço, in Portuguese) population and requested the Federal Public Prosecution Service to investigate  the Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) in order  find out why the Multiracial movement was not guaranteed participation in the regional and in the national meetings of the Intergovernmental Forum for the Promotion of Racial Equality (FIPIR).

They also asked the Federal Public Prosecution Service to find out why the Preparatory Meeting of the North Region took place in Brasilia, on March 31, not in a state of the North. The North Region was given a discriminatory treatment in relation to the other regions of the country: the other preparatory meetings took place in the other regions themselves.  The NGOs also asked the Federal Public Prosecution Service to inquire why  the State of Amazonas, the only one which sent a Multiracial delegation to the 1st National Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality  (held in 2005) and the only State which recognizes the Multiracial identity in Brazil (it was officially recognized on March 21, 2005), is one of the three States where the  Intergovernmental Forum for the Promotion of Racial Equality (FIPIR) has not been implemented.

Among other things, the NGOs  requested the Federal Public Prosecution Service to find out why the National Council for the Promotion of Racial Equality (CNPIR) has not yet answered to the petition,  addressed by the Multiracial movement to the CNPIR in 2005,  for a seat  on the council. Finally, they  denounced the absence of public policies for the Multiracial population during the announcement of the National Plan for the  Promotion of Racial Equality, which includes  the Black, Indigenous,  Gypsy, Jewish,  Arab, and  Palestinian populations.
 

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