Portugal - 2012
Is there evidence of significant disparities between the number of racist incidents and crimes reported and the numbers of racist incidents and crimes recorded by police authorities?
- Code:
- RED49
- Key Area:
- Policing - Law Enforcement - Justice
- Strand(s):
- Racism, Discrimination
| Short Answer |
No, there is no evidence of significant disparities between the number of racist incidents and crimes reported and the numbers of racist incidents and crimes recorded by police authorities. |
| Qualitative Info |
However until a few years ago that was not the case. SOS Racismo [SOS Racism], the most important ONG combating racism and xenophobia in Portugal, claimed for many years that racist incidents were clearly underreported, especially those implying Roma victims. Unfortunately sometime after the establishment of the Unidade de Apoio à Vítima Imigrante e de Discriminação Racial ou Étnica (UAVIDRE) [Unit for the Support to Immigrant Victims and Victims of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination] by the government in 2004 and as a result of it, SOS started allocating less resources to juridical support and stopped updating data on complaints. |
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Nationalism, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement |
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| Short Answer |
Yes, there is evidence of significant disparities between the number of racist incidents and crimes reported by UAVIDRE [1] (the institution empowered by the state to support victims of racial and ethnic discrimination) and the numbers of racist incidents and crimes recorded by police authorities [2]. It is impossible however to produce a detailed figure of these differences since the data collected by these entities is not categorised the same way, making impossible direct comparisons. |
| Qualitative Info |
Until a few years ago SOS Racismo [SOS Racism], the most important NGO combating racism and xenophobia in Portugal, claimed that racist incidents were clearly underreported, especially those implying Roma victims. Unfortunately sometime after the establishment of the Unidade de Apoio à Vítima Imigrante e de Discriminação Racial ou Étnica (UAVIDRE) [Unit for the Support to Immigrant Victims and Victims of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination] by the government in 2004 and as a result of it, SOS started allocating less resources to juridical support and stopped updating data on complaints. Sources:
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| Data | |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Nationalism, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement |
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