Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Report to the HRC 31st Session

This report to the Thirty-first session of the UN Human Rights Council (February/March 2016) by the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues covers the following areas:

• Country Visit to Brazil
  • Afro-Brazilians, including Quilombos and other traditional communities
  • Brazilian Roma
  • Religious communities of African origin, including Candomblé and Umbanda communities
• Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status
• Specific areas of impact of discrimination in caste-based and analogous systems
  • Civil and political rights
  • Economic, social and cultural rights
• Situation of caste-affected women and girls
• Initiatives and good practices to address caste-based discrimination
  • United Nations system
  • National legislation and special measures
  • Civil society initiatives