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People marching at the "Me emme vaikene" ("End the silence") demonstration against racism and fascism in the centre of Helsinki, Finland in September 2023. A 2011 poll showed that 66% of Finnish respondents considered Finland to be a racist country but only 14% admitted to being racist themselves. [1]
Finnish skinheads perpetrated attacks against Africans, and especially the city of Joensuu in eastern Finland grew to be an infamous center of racism . In the municipality of Nastola in southern Finland, the police had to protect the local refugee center from the violence of the locals, as they committed a shooting.
Speaking a Finnish dialect or a closely related Finnic language (their form of speech is now called Kven) was forbidden in Norway, and they experienced discrimination. [2] Before WW2, Norway feared mass immigration and invasion from Finland. This was used as an excuse to discriminate against Kvens. [3]
A 2011 study shows that racism against sub-saharan people is strongly influenced by its colonial history. [1] Today racism is present in all 3 main regions of Belgium, specially in Flanders, and widespread in the society: [2] [3] in the police, [4] [5] in schools, [6] [7] in sport activities, [8] on the streets, [9] in public institutions, [10 ...
Finland's leading politicians condemned the attacks, which Finnish President Alexander Stubb described as "shocking". "There must be no place for racism or racist violence in Finland at any level ...
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Wars created sentiments of ultra-nationalism, ethnic pride and racism. Racism is widely condemned throughout the world, with 89 states being signatories of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as of 7 March 2013. [2] Racism in Asia. Racism in China; Racism in Israel; Racism in Japan; Racism in India
Still today, Finland struggles with a chronic human rights violence against women. Each year, in Finland, up to twenty women are killed by their husbands or ex-husbands. [ 20 ] Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, have criticised the lack of action to fulfill the needed services for the victims of gendered violence ...