Indicator history

The Courts do not keep records of cases according to ground or category. It is however known that no case has ever been tried in Cyprus on racial or ethnic discrimination invoking the laws transposing Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC.

 The only body that maintains statistical records on complaints is the national equality body. However the complaints statistics for 2011 were not available at the time of writing. The complaints for the year 2010 concerning fields beyond employment were as follows: 121 complaints were received on the ground of race/ethnic origin (76%); 18 complaints on the ground of religion or belief or family status (11%). In 2010 the complainants were 43 Greek Cypriots (31%); 48 EU citizens (30%); 44 third country nationals (28%); 17 Turkish Cypriots (11%). In the field of employment, during 2010, the equality body received 22 complaints on the ground of racial origin (18%);  2 on ethnic origin (2%); 1 complaint on belief (religious or political) (1%); and 2 on the ground of language (2%). No record is available as to how many of these complaints were deemed to be well-founded.