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The most targeted immigrants in 2004 were reported to be of Somali, Kurdish, Russian, Iraqi and Iranian origin. One-third of the hate crimes were reportedly aimed at the Kale, and only one in six were members of the native population. In European Social Surveys since 2002, Finns have proved to be least racist just after Swedes.
In Germany, this brought up the Hep-Hep riots in 1819 when the Jews of Bavaria were attacked for claiming their civic rights. [28] One of the most famous examples of the 19th century was the Dreyfus affair, [29] [30] when a French officer of Jewish origin, Alfred Dreyfus, was accused of high treason in 1894. The trial sparked a wave of ...
According to the last census from 2011, Roma make up 2.0% of the population in Slovakia. Three Slovakian Romani women have come before the European Court of Human Rights on grounds of having been sterilised without their consent in Slovakian hospitals. The sterilisations were performed by tubal ligation after the women gave birth by Caesarean ...
There is evidence of discrimination on an ethnic basis that violates France's responsibilities under various UN and EU human rights treaties. Following these mass evictions the European Union Commissioner Viviane Reding (Commission of the European Communities) spoke out against the French actions stating it was in breach of EU Law. [26]
The Holocaust was one of many outbreaks of antisemitism, a term coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"). Scientific theories on antisemitism are divided into what degree it can be subsumed under racism and to what degree it can be subsumed under other causes and mechanisms.
Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination.
Category: Discrimination in Europe by country. 11 languages. ... This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. ...
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.