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In Australia there is now a real sense that the perpetrators of racism shame not only themselves, but also their country. At a time when the horrific events in Norway remind...

A wave of identity fragmentation, spanning Africa and perhaps Europe, may be approaching. Could the world be on the verge of a new period of re-ordering itself, similar to...

A Romanian Roma reflects on France's deportation of Romani. The sudden collapse of the European Union in the summer months of 2010 took many by surprise. Although the...

Michaël Privot on how conversion to Islam led him to lobbying the EU. “Anti-racism is not trendy any more,” says Michaël Privot, the new director of the...

The profiling of air travellers is unlikely to counter terrorism. To date, the policy responses to the foiled terrorist attack over Detroit have been marked more by bravado...

Stopping ethnic profiling and helping prevent terrorism. One of the writers of this letter has recently been detained at two airports – Paris-Charles De Gaulle and...

Ethnic or religious profiling has increased sharply since 2001 but has failed to lead to any conviction for terrorism. The EU should outlaw the police practice of stopping...

Europe's top watchdog flags up persistence of far-right violence, police abuse and language-based discrimination. The activities of neo-Nazi groups in Belgium are...

In the year since a landmark human-rights case, anti-Roma animus has risen. The Czechs need to show leadership. Thirteen years ago, as a visiting federal prosecutor in...

A roadmap to social inclusion should emerge from the EU's highest-level talks yet on Roma issues. EuropeanVoice.com reported on 4 September on the European Commission's...

European Commission had asked for the report after outcry over measures targeting Italy's Roma minority. The European Commission has received a report from the Italian...

Racists still find a refuge in too many soccer stadiums around the EU. On 20 April, pockets of Rapid Vienna and AGF Arhus fans unfurled banners to celebrate the birthday of...

Europe's eight million-strong Roma minority came under the spotlight abruptly this month after the murder of an Italian woman, allegedly by an ethnic Roma Romanian. Then the...

Although it has received plenty of attention for many years, racism still plagues certain sports. No sport is immune, but some appear to attract racist and xenophobic...

While the EU presidency rotated from Germany to Portugal at the beginning of the month, African Union (AU) leaders were meeting in Accra, Ghana and debating continent-wide...

The article regarding European universities is quite contradictory (‘European universities project their own image', 7-13 June). Higher education has for a long time been...

Almost two out of three Europeans believes that discrimination on the basis of someone's ethic origin is the most widespread in their country, according to the latest...

An EU proposal to criminalise racism and xenophobia does not go far enough in tackling denials of genocide and the problems that member states have in recording such crimes,...

Justice and home affairs ministers gave the green light to an EU Fundamental Rights Agency, which will begin work from January with a focus on discrimination and racism.

Immigrants and ethnic minorities are discriminated against across the EU in employment, education and housing – and governments are failing to monitor and address the...