Brazil’s Racial Discrimination Dates Back Centuries
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One of the concerns addressed here at UNGA 77 is that discrimination and racism could lead to violence. It is a problem with many roots because intolerance and xenophobia could also be violent. Maria Vals has a story about racism and death on a Brazilian favela.
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