The UN (Organization of United Nations) established 2011 as the International Year of Afrodescendent. The main part of this work is to analyze treaties, conferences and documents related to the issue in the UN system, as also as in the Organization of American States (OAS), mostly considered as...

This text aims to analyze changes in access and the profile of the student body in higher education. The guiding line of the analysis is the participation of the black population in this educational level, concentrating the research in federal higher education, which focuses on the Higher...

From 2002 to 2016 National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES, in Portuguese) financed a total amount of US$ 14 billion for 14 engineering Brazilian companies. Exporting construction services was executed in 11 countries located in Central America, South America and Africa, Angola...

BNDES has been working as public agent for the Brazilian State developing export financing policy. Observing post shipping financing policy, most disbursements for the period in analyses from 1998 to 2017 consists on a major direction to the United States counting almost US$ 17 billion over a...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the drafting development of the Racial Equality Statute, established by Law 12.288, of 2010. However, the focus is on the proceedings of the legislative bills which initiated the matter, through the documentary analysis support. As a summary of the bills'...

This text investigates how public policies focused on racial equality were inserted in the governmental agenda and how they were implemented by the Brazilian federal government from 2000 to 2014. The research strategy was a case study, using process tracing to analyze the facts in this period....

After the year 2000 homicides data shows an increasing in Brazil. Our attention directed to quantify those who are survivors or co-victims of homicide. Our initial exercise is a methodology to calculate the quantity of survivors from homicide against afro Brazilian black people. In 2010, for...