• Approval of the third version of the National Human Rights Program (PNDH-3), despite fierce opposition from the more conservative sectors of society.
• Approval of the Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence, a landmark in the struggle of women against domestic abuse.
• Creation of the Truth Commission to investigate and make public human rights violations that occurred between 1946 and 1988.
• Approval of Brazilian Law 12,711/2012, which implemented social and racial quotas for federal universities and institutes.
• Creation of the National Council for Combating Discrimination/LGBT.
• Creation of the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH), which includes broad participation from civil society.
• Holding the 1st National LGBT Conference.
• Approval of an amendment to the federal constitution on slave labor, which empowers the Brazilian government to confiscate rural and urban properties where slave-like working conditions exist.
• Establishment of a toll-free hotline (Dial 180) to receive complaints related to violence against women.
• In Brazil's northernmost and least populated state, Roraima, establishment of legal boundaries around the Serra Raposa do Sol indigenous reserve, one of the largest such areas in the nation, the scene of a violent land rights dispute between native peoples and farmers.
• Introduction of the National Plan for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Living Without Limits.
• Expansion of a toll-free hotline (Dial 100), which receives complaints of human rights violations being committed against any citizen(s), especially vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, LGBT individuals, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and the homeless.
• Enactment of Brazilian Law 10,639/2003, which mandates the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture in schools across the country.
• Creation and publication of the Report on Homophobic Violence in Brazil.
• Enactment of Brazilian Law 12,990/2014, which establishes a 20% set aside for Afro-Brazilians of all civil service positions offered through nationwide competitive examinations.
• Approval of Brazilian Law 12,978/2014, which classifies sexual abuse of children and adolescents as a heinous crime.
• Approval of the Anti-Spanking Law, which establishes the right of children and adolescents be educated without the use of corporal punishment.
• Creation of the National System to Prevent and Combat Torture, which sets forth the means to monitor, supervise and control legal establishments and facilities where persons are deprived of their freedom, and promotes protection of the rights and interests of these individuals.
• Signing of the National Commitment to Active Aging, which seeks to value, promote and defend the rights of the elderly, with activities involving 17 ministries, as well as the governments of Brazil's several states, the federal district and municipalities.
• Establishment of the Special National Office on Indigenous Health, which came about in response to a historic demand from indigenous movements.