With the objective of fostering the development of policies to promote equality, the center provides training to trade unions and produces educational material, articles and papers for use by trade union press offices. The Center provides advisory services to trade unions in drafting pro-equality clauses in labor agreements. In 1992, in partnership with trade unions, CEERT denounced Brazil’s failure to comply with Convention 111 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which paved the way for the government’s adoption of public policies regarding racial equality in the labor market. From 1995 to 1996, the Center provided formal advisory services to the ILO and to Brazil’s Labor Ministry in the area of race relations. In 1994 CEERT participated in the 1st Inter-American Trade Union Conference for Racial Equality, which led to the creation of anti-racism trade union commissions and the approval of anti-racism policies in various professional categories and in Brazil’s labor federations. SOCIAL OBSERVATORY CEERT monitors the issue of “racial discrimination” at the Social Observatory Institute, and trains technical professionals to create and continue to build a Database on Race, Labor and the Labor Movement. COMPANIES AND HUMAN RESOURCES CEERT focuses on the role of the human resources professional in implementing affirmative-action practices within companies. The Center analyses the current condition of gender and racial equality, and develops programs to promote diversity within companies. The Center introduced the issue of diversity at the National Human Resources Congress and fostered the creation of a Diversity Commission in the Regional Council of Psychology. Some CEERT researchers are members of that Council and of the Federal Council of Psychology, the most important Brazilian organization in that area.