Honorary Committee against Racism, Xenophobia and All Forms of Discrimination
The Honorary Committee against Racism, Xenophobia and All Forms of Discrimination was created by Law No. 17.817 of 2004 and entered into force on March 21, 2007, for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Its main objective is to propose national policies and concrete measures to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia and discrimination, including rules of positive discrimination. Among its specific compliments is the monitoring of the national policy and the carrying out of studies, dissemination campaigns, as well as the receipt of complaints. The Commission also produces annual reports and creates action plans. The Commission is composed of a representative of the Ministry of Education and Culture, a representative of the Ministry of the Interior, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a representative of the Central Board of Directors of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP) and three representatives nominated by the President of the Republic, among those nominated by non-governmental organizations with a well-known background in the fight against racism, xenophobia and all other forms of discrimination.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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