United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Policymaking and Systemic Racism: a human rights-based approach Title: Policies to Promote Ethnic-Racial Equality: building an ethnic-racial justice agenda in Brazilian drug policy
Date: April 17, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Brasília time (GMT-3)
Sponsoring Organizations or Entities: Ministry of Justice and Public Security of Brazil
Languages: Portuguese and English
Event Description: Exhibition of the actions developed by the Brazilian federal government, within the scope of the National Secretariat for Drug Policy and Asset Management (SENAD) of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, regarding the ethnic-racial justice agenda in drug policy. The parallel event is based on the assumption made by the current administration that Brazilian drug policy is permeated by mechanisms for the production and reproduction of racism, whether through selective criminalization processes, patterns of intervention by police forces, application of the law by the Judiciary and other dynamics of restriction of rights based on racial hierarchies.
Invited guests: Civil society organizations, Ministry of Racial Equality and Government of Colombia
Main Organizer: National Secretariat for Drug Policy and Asset Management of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (senad.internacional@mj.gov.br | + 55 61 2025 - 7329)
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