| Country | Legal instrument | Declared objective |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Law no. 24,515 | Create the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), as a decentralized entity within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior. |
| Bolivia (Plur. State of) | Law no. 045 | The purpose of this Law is to establish mechanisms and procedures for the prevention and punishment of acts of racism and all forms of discrimination in the framework of the Political Constitution of the State and International Treaties of Rights Humans. |
| Brazil | Law no. 10,678 | The Special Secretariat for Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality is hereby created as an advisory body to the President of the Republic. |
| Colombia | Law no. 70 | It aims to recognize black communities occupying barren land in the rural areas bordering the rivers of the Pacific basin, in accordance with their traditional production practices, the right to collective property and establish mechanisms for the protection of identity cultural and rights of the black communities of Colombia as an ethnic group and the promotion of their economic and social development. |
| Costa Rica | Executive Decree no. 38,835 | Create the figure of the Commissioner of the Presidency of the Republic for Afro-Costa Rican Community Affairs |
| Ecuador | Executive Decree no. 1747 | The Afro-Ecuadorian Development Corporation, CODAE, is created as a decentralized and participatory body, with legal status, attached to the Presidency of the Republic |
| Guatemala | Government Agreement no. 390 | The Presidential Commission Against Discrimination and Racism against Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala, which will have its responsible for the formulation of public policies that tend to eradicate racial discrimination. |
| Honduras | Executive Decree no. 002-2004 | Establishes, in particular, the functions of the aforementioned Commission, namely: advising and accompanying the different institutions and State officials, in the formulation of public policies as well as private institutions, to develop effective mechanisms that tend to eradicate discrimination racial discrimination, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; |
| Mexico | Federal Law to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination | The Council is created as the lead institution to promote policies and measures tending to contribute to cultural and social development and advance social inclusion and guarantee the right to equality |
| Nicaragua | Presidential Decree no. 21 | n.d |
| Panama | Executive Decree no.116 | Creates the National Secretariat of the Black Ethnicity as an autonomous entity of the State, with autonomous legal status in its internal regime and its own assets, to direct and implement the policy of social inclusion of black people in the National territory. |
| Peru | Law no. 28,495 | Its purpose is to create the National Institute of Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, hereinafter INDEPA, and regulate its nature, structure and functions for the effective formulation of national policies aimed at the development of the Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples. |
| Uruguay | Law no. 17,817 | The struggle against racism, xenophobia and all other forms of discrimination was declared to be of national interest. |
| Venezuela (Bol. Rep. of) | Decree no. 3,645 | Its purpose is the development, formulation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of programs, methods and public policies for the Education Sector, which guarantee equal opportunities and treatment for all people in the enjoyment and effective exercise of the right to education. |
Source: own elaboration based on information available on websites of disability institutions.
