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This program was devised with the main objective to produce knowledge, sensitize and subsidize law professionals and involve legal institutions in the debate on the application of the legislation against discrimination and for racial equality, as well as suggest legal actions in favor of rights and interests of the black population and of victims of religious intolerance. It is also within the scope of the project to have a thorough social control of the governmental structure, through the Judicial Department, including the use of legal action as means to affirm and control public policies that promote racial equality; sensible judicial assistance, selecting exemplary cases, with positive repercussion potential in the legal understanding of the problem. Research of jurisprudence and studies on the legislation to promote equality, as well as to sensitize and qualify law professionals; disseminate information through seminars, publications and lectures for law professionals; improvement of the legislation with the objective of qualifying legal documents and the judicial defense of the promotion of the equality of race and gender. We recently placed a legal website on the air www.jusracial.com.br, containing a repertoire of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine on racial discrimination and religious liberty. The result of the work of the site, above all with regard to the wealth of the jurisprudence collected, authorizes us to project at least three ideas referring to publications (printed format and/or DVD and/or PDF) at short term, being:

• “Racial discrimination interpreted by the law courts”;

• “The defense of victims of racial discrimination in court”; “Liberty of faith interpreted by the courts”.
Besides spreading knowledge, these publications should, above all, offer the conceptual and theoretical bases for a training program at distance, via Internet, promoted by the site itself and other media. We refer to the modules of courses, programmed lectures and other interactive ways through the network, guided by the following objectives:

• qualify lawyers for the adequate treatment and legal forwarding of claims of racial discriminatory practices – in labor, civil and criminal courts;

• expand the understanding and awareness of latu senso discrimination, with emphasis on racial discrimination, and provide theoretic and legal means that strengthen the legal defense of the rights and interests of those discriminated, helping to increase their access to Justice;

• promote information and contribute to the understanding, control and use of anti-discriminating norms included in the Brazilian legal system.
In our opinion, one of the biggest challenges that the situation imposes is to assist lawyers to adequately interpret and fully explore the legal norms and not just be acquainted with these.

Besides, the interactivity possible through Internet will allow us to reach lawyers of the entire country, thus collaborating to the understanding and focus of the effort to expand access of the black population to justice.
It is obvious that there is also a need and relevance of a service of legal orientation to guide the victims of discrimination and religious intolerance and indicate the appropriate organ of protection.

We suppose that in this association the corresponding public agencies whether they are Racial Crime and Intolerance Offices, Public Defense, Public Labor Ministry, Promoters of Citizen Rights, the various services of legal assistance offered by the OAB (Order of Brazilian Lawyers) or different Law Schools, among others, must be set in motion in order to satisfactorily meet the demand of cases of racial discrimination and religious intolerance.

The role of the site should therefore be restricted to the promotion of these agencies and to the supply of information to the victims, guiding them regarding their rights, the steps to be followed, deadlines and responsibilities of the corresponding agencies.

Finally, we intend to give continuity to the work of sensible legal assistance, selecting emblematic cases, with potential of positive repercussion in the legal understanding of the problem, emphasizing two main areas: liberty of faith and racial discrimination.

We also understand that the subject of liberty of faith, namely the problems faced by the Afro-Brazilian Religions, require permanent work in the formation of leaderships and promotion of information.