Racial profiling still rife across the EU, Council of Europe says
New technologies such as facial recognition could worsen the problem, experts have suggested.
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Italian leaders push back at accusations of police racism and homophobia
Council of Europe monitor reports ‘many accounts of racial profiling’ but Giorgia Meloni says force ‘deserves respect’The Council of Europe has come under fire from Italian leaders after the publication of a report accusing the country’s police force o…
Spanish town aims to minimise racial profiling in police checks
A police force in a Madrid commuter town has become an example to others in Europe on how to prevent institutional racism. Fuenlabrada, where 15 percent of residents are immigrants, has found a model of policing to end discriminatory ID checks, as wel…
Hope is like the sun: Court of Justice ruling extends right to family reunification for refugee minors
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Migrant pushbacks inside EU to be codified in law, say critics
The EU is set to pass a law allowing police to return suspected irregular migrants to bordering EU member states — in what critics are describing as internal pushbacks based on racial profiling.
EU nears racial profiling approval at Schengen borders, risking discrimination
The proposed reform of the Schengen Borders Code will legalise and expand targeted checks on racialized communities, giving carte blanche to member states to potentially use violence when larger groups of people try crossing their borders, writes Miche…
Inside the culture clash dominating the AI debate in the US
Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into Washington, its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital’s tech policy landscape.
EU strikes historic migration deal
Negotiators work through the night to agree on the overhaul of the EU’s asylum procedures.
EU migration package risks racial profiling and discrimination, NGOs say
Seventeen groups issue statement sounding alarm at migration laws agreed by most EU membersThe EU risks opening the door to increased discrimination and racial profiling in what is being described as a “potentially irreversible attack” on the internati…
[Opinion] EU’s new migration pact is normalisation of racial profiling
EU legislators are just weeks away from enabling racial profiling and unlawful de facto detention across Europe’s external-border member states.
Court finds police in France often use racial profiling in identity checks
Practice ruled to be discriminatory, but Conseil d’État says it does not have power to force change in policyFrance’s highest administrative court has recognised discriminatory police identity checks based on racial profiling exist in France and are no…
France faces court action over widespread use of racial profiling
Rights groups hope to bring end to discrimination they say has gone unaddressed by successive governmentsFrance must end the widespread racial profiling of people of black and north African heritage who are routinely stopped by police and asked to show…
[Feature] Who will fill gap left by Soros’ Open Society Foundations?
From providing legal support to victims of racial profiling, to funding an LGBT+ organisation playing a key role in the decriminalisation of consensual homosexuality in Romania, the Open Society Foundaion has played an outsized role in buttressing Euro…
UN remarks on French police’s use of racial profiling ‘excessive’, says Paris
France on Saturday disputed “excessive” and “unfounded” remarks by a UN committee that raised racial profiling and excessive use of force by law enforcement during recent widespread rioting in the country.
UN committee calls on France to fully probe police killing of Nahel M.
A UN committee on Friday called on France to ensure the investigation into the killing of Nahel, the teenager shot dead by police near Paris, is “thorough and impartial”, and called for racial profiling to be banned.
What are the causes of police violence in France?
In this week’s episode of EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast, we delve into the pressing issue of police violence in France.