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Brasília, Federal District , budget = $91.8 m

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(2023) , chief1_name = Anielle Franco , chief1_position = Minister , chief2_name = Roberta Eugênio , chief2_position = Executive-Secretary , chief3_name = Iêda Leal de Souza , chief3_position = Secretary of Management of the National System of Promotion of Racial Equality , chief4_name = Ronaldo dos Santos , chief4_position = Secretary of Policies for Quilombolas, Traditional People and Communities of African Origin, Terreiro People and Gypsies , chief5_name = Márcia Regina de Lima , chief5_position = Secretary of Policies and Affirmative Actions, Fight and Overcoming Racism , website = Ministry of Racial Equality ( pt, Ministério da Igualdade Racial) of Brazil is a department of the direct public administration of the Federal Government responsible to plan, coordinate and execute public politics of promotion of racial equality and fight against racism on a national level. The incumbent minister of state who heads the ministry is Anielle Franco.

History

It was created under the name of Special Secretariat of Politics of Promotion of Racial Equality of the Presidency of the Republic (SEPPIR), on 21 March 2003, during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as a secretariat linked to the Presidency and with cabinet-level. The first chief minister was

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, social worker and university professor.

List of ministers

Parties

Organizational structure

Due to the long period it was a child agency in another department, the Ministry of Racial Equality is under a process of redeployment and should follow the organizational structure of the other Brazilian ministries that are composed by the following units and organs: * Direct and immediate assistance organs: Minister Cabinet; Executive Secretariat; Special Advisory of Internal Control (AECI); Juridical Consultancy (CONJUR). * Singular specific organs: thematic secretariats that are part of the second-tier of the federal government (these are subdivided in specialized department that form the third-tier).

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