Brazilian African-based religions ask the U.N. for help
23. 9. 2019 / Fabiano Golgo
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Members
of Brazilian civil group Coalizão Negra por Direitos (Black Coalition
for Rights) are in Geneva in meetings with members of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR). The objective is to
denounce Brazilian government policies that pose risks to the black
population in Brazil.
The anti-racist organization is made up of 60 civil society organizations that defend the rights of the black community.
The
agenda of the Brazilian representatives of the black movement at the
42nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was full of
meetings with representatives of many countries to denounce the current
new so-called religious racismin Brazil, where beliefs of African
origin, are very widespread, considering it is a country that had about
ten times more slaves than the U.S. and nowadays has almost half of its
population with some African descendancy, are being violated with the
help of the State.
Not only evangelical
Christians promote the destruction of African religious temples, but
beatings and killings of those who practice black spiritualistic rituals
became common place.
Another complaint filed
by the group refers to the 2020 Census, which will not ask people's
racial background, which is believed to have the objective of cutting
down policies aimed at black populations, hiding the numbers of blacks
living in misery.
According to Douglas
Belchior, member of the Black Coalition for Rights, the complaints of
rights violations were accepted by the U.N., which will address an
official letter expressing concern with the rhetorics of president Jair
Bolsonaro and his minister for human rights, Damares Alves, both of whom
claim African-based religions are diabolical and anti-Christian.
LGBT and indigenous groups were also present in Geneva, with a series of complaints and requests for help from the U.N.
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