Global Legal Monitor Brazil: Federal Senate Approves Inter-American Convention Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance According to article 1 of the convention, acts of racial discrimination may be based on race, color, lineage, or national or ethnic origin and are defined as any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference, in any area of public or private life, with the purpose or effect of canceling or restricting the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, under conditions of equality, of one or more human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in inter...