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Are there mechanisms in place to collect data on racial discrimination in line with data protection legislation as an effective means of, monitoring and reviewing policies and practices to combat racial discrimination and promote racial equality?

Code:
RED8
Key Area:
Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
Strand(s):
Discrimination, Equality
29/12/2011 - 16:05
Short Answer

There are some mechanisms in place to collect data on racial discrimination, but they do not allow to monitor and review policies and pratices to combat racial discrimination.

Qualitative Info

Data collection is dispersed between different bodies and it is not performed according to homogenized criteria.

There is the Comissão para a Igualdade e Contra a Discriminação Racial – [Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination] (CEARD) and the Unidade de Apoio à Vítima Imigrante e de Discriminação Racial ou Étnica [Unit for Support of Immigrant Victims and Victims of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination] (UAVIDRE) established by the Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima [Portuguese Association for Victim Support] (APAV) an NGO that signed a protocol to give assistance to immigrants facing discrimination and to the victims of racial or ethnic discrimination, with the Specialised Body, from whom it also gets financial support.

But there are also the Inspectorates General that are bodies within Ministries, to whom complaints may be directly presented, the Provedor de Justiça [Ombudsman] and the Tribunals.

As a consequence the same complaint may be enlisted in the data sets of distinct entities and therefore could be counted twice. Cumulatively none of the referred data sets lists the total number of complaints thus preventing to monitor and review policies and practices to combat racial discrimination.

 

Groups affected/interested Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities
Type (R/D)
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas
External Url
Situation(s)
Library
24/02/2013 - 19:59
Short Answer

There are some mechanisms in place to collect data on complaints of racial discrimination, but they do not allow to monitor and review policies and pratices to combat racial discrimination.

Qualitative Info

Data collection is dispersed between different bodies and it is not performed according to homogenized criteria.

There is the Comissão para a Igualdade e Contra a Discriminação Racial (CICDR) – [Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination (CEARD)]  [1] and the Unidade de Apoio à Vítima Imigrante e de Discriminação Racial ou Étnica (UAVIDRE) [Unit for Support of Immigrant Victims and Victims of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination] established by the Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima APAV) [Portuguese Association for Victim Support]  [2] an NGO that signed a protocol to give assistance to immigrants facing discrimination and to the victims of racial or ethnic discrimination, with the Specialised Body, from whom it also gets financial support.

But there are also the Inspectorates General that are bodies within Ministries, to whom complaints may be directly presented, the Provedor de Justiça [Ombudsman] [3] and the Tribunals.

As a consequence the same complaint may be enlisted in the data sets of distinct entities and therefore could be counted twice. Cumulatively none of the referred data sets lists the total number of complaints thus preventing to monitor and review policies and practices to combat racial discrimination.


Sources:

  1. Comissão para a Igualdade e Contra a Discriminação Racial (CICDR), http://www.cicdr.pt, Accessed in 24.02.2013
  2. Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima, http://apav.pt/apav_v2/index.php/pt/, Accessed in 24.02.2013
  3. Provedor de Justiça, http://www.provedor-jus.pt,  Accessed in 24.02.2013

 

Groups affected/interested Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities
Type (R/D)
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas
External Url
Situation(s)
Library