With threats by authorities to shut down this year’s event, offaicls and organizers reached an agreement:
Under its terms, fashion brands must ensure that 10% of the models are of African or Indigenous descent…As the BBC News reported last year, some Afro-Brazilian models are upset at the apparent racism in their country’s fashion industry. "In a fashion show it is practically impossible," attest one model.
Companies failing to meet the new target could face the prospect of being fined more than $120,000…
While there has been little visible sign of tension over race, people of African heritage make up the poorest section of society.
An attempt to create a national law to establish quotas to address this inequality has once again been delayed in the Brazilian Congress, because of a failure to reach a consensus.
Some legislators are arguing that the best way to tackle inequality would be to use social rather than racial criteria in setting targets.
Image- BBC News
Online Sources- BBC News, The Latin Americanist
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