The package includes national programs, edicts and inter-ministerial working groups, cooperation agreements and other initiatives that guarantee or expand the right to life, land, inclusion, memory and reparation.

Although November 20th is Black Consciousness Day nationwide, the date is not a holiday in all states and cities, so the operation of some services may vary depending on the location.

The date calls for actions to praise the fight of black people against racial discrimination and social inequality that still prevails in Brazil.

Official statistics reveal that blacks in the country (54 percent of a population of nearly 213 million inhabitants) are minorities in professions, higher education, salaries, among other aspects of life. However, they are the majority in prisons, in unemployment, poverty, and in the percentage of homicide victims.

Furthermore, the killing of blacks by police in the favelas, and most clearly in Rio de Janeiro, is interwoven into communities like samba or soccer.

According to data from the Network of Security Observatories of the Center for Security and Citizenship Studies, when considering only those with declared color/race, the proportion of black people killed rises to 87.4 percent.

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