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In 1998, the Council of Europe's European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) made a report stating concern about racist activities in France and accused the French authorities of not doing enough to combat this. The report and other groups have expressed concern about organizations such as Front National (France).
Environmental issues which were caused by Cold War-era industrial development have disproportionately impacted the Roma, particularly those Roma who live in Eastern Europe. Most often, the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Roma causes them to settle on the outskirts of towns and cities, where amenities, employment and educational ...
Anti-Slavic sentiment, also called Slavophobia, refers to prejudice, collective hatred, and discrimination directed at the various Slavic peoples. Accompanying racism and xenophobia, the most common manifestation of anti-Slavic sentiment throughout history has been the assertion that some Slavs are inferior to other peoples.
Turks are "the most prominent ethnic minority group in contemporary Germany", [121] and discrimination and violence against them are common. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] In public discourse and popular jokes, they are often portrayed as "ludicrously different in their food tastes, dress, names, and even in their ability to develop survival techniques".
(Part 1 of Article 1 of the U.N. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) In 2001, the European Union explicitly banned racism, along with many other forms of social discrimination, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the legal effect of which, if any, would necessarily be ...
A painting in Holy Trinity church in Loddon, Norfolk depicting the first known case of blood libel dating back to 1144. Antisemitism in Europe in the Middle Ages was largely influenced by the Christian belief that the Jewish people were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus through the so-called blood curse of Pontius Pilate in the
The European Union has taken positive steps towards changing the position of the Roma and eliminating discrimination against them. In 2011, under the EU framework for national integration strategies up to 2020, they called upon each EU member state to produce a concrete plan to improve the situation of the marginalised Roma specifically ...
Antisemitism in Europe by country (30 C) Racism in Europe by country (31 C) A. Discrimination in Albania (3 C) ... Discrimination in the United Kingdom (14 C, 12 P)