Racism / Discrimination

Imperfect Justice: Anti-Roma Violence and Impunity

Date: 07/04/2011 - 09:29

Many Romani victims of violent attacks do not secure justice, according to the findings of research undertaken by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

ENAR on the Swiss deportation referendum

Date: 01/12/2010 - 05:48

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is seriously concerned by the recent referendum in Switzerland in favour of the automatic deportation of foreigners convicted of certain criminal offences, including minor offences. This vote is the result of a xenophobic and discriminatory campaign launched by the populist Swiss People's Party, making dangerous amalgams between immigration and criminality.

ENAR surveys on monitoring ethnic diversity in the workplace

Date: 18/10/2010 - 08:06

In 2010, ENAR’s expert group on promoting equality in employment will address the issue of monitoring and benchmarking concretely the situation of ethnic and religious minorities in employment to ensure progression in the race towards equality and prosperity. This pioneering initiative started in 2009 and brings together four major multinational companies (SODEXO, L'OREAL, IBM, ADECCO Group), trade unions, EU institutions, national governments and the anti-racist civil society.

Legaal & Illegaal: Naar een andere kijk op onze samenleving

Date: 01/10/2010 - 12:09

Related countries:

Belgium

Work field:

From date: 02/10/2010 - 23:00
To date: 02/10/2010 - 23:00

Sun, 03/10/2010

Vrij verkeer van goederen, handel & kapitaal: een triade die de pijler vormt van ons liberaal systeem. Welke plaats krijgt het vrij verkeer van mensen in dit verhaal? Het recht van een Westerling om de wereld rond te reizen staat in schril contrast met de veelheid aan obstakels die een niet-EU burger tegenkomt op zijn weg om een visum voor Europa te bemachtigen. Wat is er met andere woorden zo liberaal aan ons migratiebeleid? Wij zouden het debat fundamenteel willen voeren en het beginsel van“(open) grenzen” ter discussie willen stellen.

Location

Brussels

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Roma expulsions challenge Europe's benevolent self-image

Date: 23/09/2010 - 13:13

It is arguably modern Europe's flagship ideal: the freedom to move across borders and seek a better life elsewhere.

But in the Europe of Nicolas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi, and others, the privilege has its limits -- and its paradoxes. Effectively excluded, it seems, is the one group singly most identified with a nomadic and peripatetic existence: the continent's 10 million-strong Romany population.

Roms et gens du voyage : l’histoire d’une persécution transnationale

Date: 31/07/2010 - 07:33

« Comment se fait-il que l’on voit dans certains de ces campements tant de si belles voitures, alors qu’il y a si peu de gens qui travaillent ? » (1) Tels étaient les mots de M. Nicolas Sarkozy en 2002, alors qu’il était ministre de l’intérieur et fermement décidé à traiter le « problème rom ».

South Africa: Migrants fear attacks after World Cup ends

Date: 09/06/2010 - 09:25

The World Cup, which has spread warm feelings of unity across the continent, will likely mark a respite in the sporadic attacks on the millions of Africans who have flooded into South Africa looking for work in mines and homes in the region's most prosperous country, experts have said.

MSF attire l’attention sur les dangers pour les migrants et les réfugiés en Afrique du Sud

Date: 19/05/2010 - 11:54

MSF exprime sa profonde inquiétude pour la santé et la vie de milliers de migrants et de réfugiés qui arrivent et s’installent en Afrique du Sud. Privés d’accès à des soins de santé médicaux adéquats, à des abris et à la sécurité dont ils ont besoin, ils sont également la proie de violences sexuelles, de harcèlements policiers et d’attaques xénophobes.

MSF fournit des soins de santé aux migrants et aux réfugiés dans ses cliniques dans la ville frontalière de Musina et à Johannesburg.

Japan, U.N. share blind spot on 'migrants'

Date: 06/04/2010 - 08:05

On March 23, I gave a speech to Jorge Bustamante, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, for NGO FRANCA regarding racial discrimination in Japan. Text follows:

First ever EU-wide survey of minorities: Mapping Discrimination across Europe

Date: 11/12/2009 - 13:53

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released the results of its survey of over 23,000 individuals from ethnic minority and immigrant groups about their experiences of discrimination, racist crime, and policing in the EU. The results reveal shocking evidence about the discrimination faced by minorities in everyday life; in the classroom, when looking for work, at the doctor's, or in shops. On the eve of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the FRA calls for targeted policies to combat the marginalisation of these groups.