Brazil - A seminar to combat Hate Crimes over the Internet

The Jewish Federation of Rio de Janeiro hosted a seminar to combat Hate Crimes over the Internet. For the first time in Brazil, the main characters on the struggle from federal police, federal government, NGOs, civil society and judiciary, from many states of Brazil, met in a single place to expose what is being done in this combat to identify, arrest and suit hate speech placers and owners of websites and portals in Portuguese language aimed to Brazilian people, using foreign countries service providers to violate Brazilian laws. As result of this seminar, a law project was send to Ministry of Justice to change anti-racist Brazilian law to specifically typify as crime hate speech and racism using any means over the Internet.

Date: July 15, 2007

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