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AHRLR 84 (2001)

The independent equality bodies play an essential role in advancing equality and combating discrimination and intolerance. This General Policy Recommendation draws on best practices and contains standards to help States to further strengthen their equality bodies. It focuses on the key elements for the establishment, independence and effective functioning of equality bodies that make a real impact in the field of equality.

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This text aims to encourage the adoption of a series of measures to combat manifestations of racism and intolerance and discriminatory practices against Roma/Gypsies.

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ECRI’s General Policy Recommendation No.6 concerns the dissemination of racist material via the Internet. The Recommendation requests governments to take the necessary measures, at national and international levels, to act effectively against the use of Internet for racist, xenophobic and antisemitic aims.

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ECRI's General Policy Recommendation No.9 is devoted to the fight against antisemitism. It sets out a comprehensive set of legal and policy measures to help Council of Europe member States fight against antisemitism, which should be systematically included in a broader policy against all forms of racism. Such measures include, inter alia, strengthening criminal law provisions, stepping up awareness-raising efforts in schools and the systematic collection of information about antisemitic offences.

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ECRI's General Policy Recommendation No.11 on combating racism and racial discrimination in policing aims to help the police to promote security and human rights for all through adequate policing and covers racism and racial discrimination in the context of combating all crime, including terrorism. It focuses particularly on racial profiling; racial discrimination and racially motivated misconduct by the police; the role of the police in combating racist offences and monitoring racist incidents; and relations between the police and members of minority groups.

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ECRI’s General Policy Recommendation No.13 on combating anti-Gypsyism and discrimination against Roma reinforces its General Policy Recommendation No.3, in response to a worsening of the situation of Europe’s Roma population. In this recommendation, ECRI calls on member States to adopt no less than 90 measures: on the one hand, to ensure the access of Roma to education, employment and other goods and services; and, on the other hand, to combat hate speech, racist crimes and violence against Roma, through both the application of criminal law provisions and preventive and awareness-raising measures. Finally, it emphasises that only a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to Roma issues, involving Roma representatives at all levels of policy-making (conception, development, implementation and evaluation) can enhance mutual trust and contribute to the fight against anti-Gypsyism.

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Contribuciones de países latinoamericanos respecto a las buenas prácticas alcanzadas por cada uno de ellos en lo que concierne a la lucha contra el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y formas conexas de intolerancia