Weekly Report - 18 October 2012 (WR-12-41)

President Dilma Rousseff caused a stir this week by indicating that she favoured the introduction of racial quotas in federal public service recruitment. Rousseff’s comments coincided with the entry into force on 15 October of a new law of affirmative action establishing quotas for poor students, especially those of black, mixed race and indigenous ethnicity, at Brazil’s 59 federal universities and technical institutes. She will face a battle royal, however, with the political opposition which objects to extending the imposition of quotas into other fields.

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