Indicator in all countries

Number of cases where ethnic discrimination was found/established by Equality Body/Agency/Court

• Austria

  There is no systematic documentation available.

• Bulgaria

  1

• Cyprus

  No record is available as to how many of these complaints were deemed to be well-founded.

• Denmark

  The Board of Equal Treatment (Ligebehandlingsnævnet):

  In 2009: 4

  In 2010: 6

• Finland
• France

  In 2011 431 condemnations were pronounced for racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory offences by Penal Courts. 

  In 2010 567 condemnations were pronounced. In 2010 HALDE found there was discrimination on the ground of origin in 5 cases.

   

• Germany

  No data available.

• Greece

  Most recent data available concern the year 2010.

  In a total of 53 inquieries examined (2 - ethnic origin; 36 - racial origin; 14 - disability; 1 - age), discrimination was established in 44 cases (1 - ethnic origin; 36 - racial origin; 6 - disability; 1 - age).

   
• Hungary

  8

• Ireland

  Data regarding cases brought to the Equality Tribunal and outcomes of such can be found in Equality Tribunal Annual Report 2009. The report does not specify the numbers/results of cases where ethnic discrimination was found.

• Italy

  540 cases.

• Poland

  No data.

• Portugal

  The number of crime cases registered in 2010 by UAVIDRE [Unit for the Support to Immigrant Victims and Victims of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination] the independent agency established with financial support of the Equality Body, is 320 (tree hundred and twenty).

• Romania

  In 2012 at the equality body - National Council for Combating Discrimination - discrimination on the ground of ethnicity was found in 26 cases, on nationality in 13 cases and on the ground of language in 21 cases (in certain cases language can act as a proxy to nationality in Romania).

• Slovenia

  In 2010 ethnic discrimination was not found in any of the three cases dealt with by the Advocate of the Principle of Equality. In one case ethnic discrimination was established by Social Inspectorate.
   

• Spain

  no data

• Sweden

  The number of cases where ethnic discrimination was found/established by the Equality Ombudsman was 694 cases in 2011.