Anti-racist group to report taxi website to Garda

Single Incident Alert DateNovember 15, 2007 Country: Ireland Address: Dublin General Type: Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Africans/black people Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Employment - labour market, Media, Internet Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Internet
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Extremist/Organised Group Violence No

"The State's advisory body on racism is to report to the Garda a website aimed at taxi drivers for carrying racist and offensive material about immigrants in Ireland. The National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI) believes comments posted on a forum linked from the website www.taxi.ie are in breach of the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act. Dozens of offensive entries targeting black Africans and other ethnic minorities remained on the forum yesterday."

Source:

by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent, in The Irish Times - Thurs 15 Nov 2007

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/1115/1194550405556.html