Indicator history

The Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e Diálogo Intercultural (ACIDI) [High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue] and the Comissão para a Igualdade e Contra a Discriminação Racial (CICDR) [Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination] (CICDR) issued a statement in April 2006 on references to nationality, ethnic group or legal status in news items from official sources, and in the media, calling the attention to the responsibility of the media and of official sources (namely law enforcement agencies) in avoiding the dissemination of stereotyping and prejudice against minority groups, recommending them to avoid the association between crime and minority groups.

Other statements were issued afterwards regarding particular subjects that come to the fore in the media, and where entire minority and immigrant groups were associated with negative behaviour. Many times the statements of the CICDR were made with the objective of denying unsubstantiated rumours that stemmed from racial prejudice. In 2008 the CICDR took a position on references to nationality, ethnic group or religion in humorous items, asking for a responsible attitude on the part of humorists and those responsible for programming, to avoid the association of derogatory characteristics with a foreign nationalities, religions or ethnic minorities.
 

Source

Cádima, R., Figueiredo, A. (2003), Representações (Imagens) dos Imigrantes e das Minorias Étnicas nos Media
, Lisboa: ACIDI/Observatório da Imigração, http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/pdf/Estudo%20Obercom.pdf, Date of access: 24.02.2012.

Dias, B. Ralha, T. and Silva, E. (2009), Complementary Data Collection - Contribution from Portugal to the Annual Report of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, Vienna: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

Ferin, I, Almeida Santos, C., Silveirinha, M. J., Peixoto, A. T. (2004), Media, Imigração e Minorias Étnicas, Lisboa: ACIDI/Observatório da Imigração, http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/imprensa.pdf, Date of access: 24.02.2012.

Ferin, I, Almeida Santos, C., (2006), Media, Imigração e Minorias Étnicas II, Lisboa: ACIDI/Observatório da Imigração, http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/Estudos%20OI/Estudo_OI_19.pdf, Date of access: 24.02.2012.

Ferin, I, Almeida Santos, C., (2008), Media, Imigração e Minorias Étnicas 2005-2006, Lisboa: ACIDI/Observatório da Imigração, http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/Col_EstudosOI/OI_28.pdf, Date of access: 24.02.2012.

Ferin, I, Almeida Santos, C., (2008), Media, Imigração e Minorias Étnicas 2007, Lisboa: ACIDI/Observatório da Imigração, http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/Col_EstudosOI/OI_28_act.pdf, Date of access: 24.02.2012.