Romania - 2012
Is there evidence or indication that the police force engages in ethnic profiling?
- Code:
- RED47
- Key Area:
- Policing - Law Enforcement - Justice
- Strand(s):
- Racism, Discrimination
| Short Answer |
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raised concerns. |
| Qualitative Info |
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its Concluding Observations to Romania from 2010 stated its concerns about "existing police and justice personnel's practices of racial profiling (art.5):[...] The Committee also recommends that the State Party eliminates the practices of racial profiling conducted by the police and justice personnel and to provide the Committee on the next report complete data about the numbers of complaints introduced and prosecutions initiated and sanctions ordered against such practices."
Source:
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations to Romania (2010), p.4, para.15, CERD/C/ROU/CO/16-19, available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/ENACARegion/Pages/ROIndex.aspx (Accessed on 23.12.2011) |
| Data | |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Asylum seekers |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Nationalism |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement |
| External Url | http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/ENACARegion/Pages/ROIndex.aspx |
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