The Government develop a strategy for combating racism

Policy Response DateNovember 8, 2011 Country: Spain General Type: Racist violence, Racist discourse, Discrimination, Institutional discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, On grounds of other belief
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement

The Council of Ministers approved on Friday the National Strategy to Combat Racism and Xenophobia, an initiative born from the Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration and provides for the creation of a register of incidents of this nature in order to response to a repeated demand of NGOs and other international agencies who complained the lack of statistical information in Spain on this matter.
Specifically, it seeks to adopt the formula of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in which all that is considered racist demonstration that the victim or a third person considered as such. This will be recorded in the crowded and it will be possible to surface more cases and that the data collected will be comparable to the rest of the European Union.

Source:http://www.europapress.es/sociedad/noticia-gobierno-cierra-estrategia-lucha-contra-racismo-20111104134535.html