1. OPEN SOCIETY JUSTICE INITIATIVE
CHALLENING
ETHNIC
PROFILING
IN
EUROPE
Reducing Ethnic Profiling
in the European Union
A Handbook of Goodtockholm
15
Febraury
2014
S Practices
Maxim
Ferschtman

2. What
is
ethnic
profiling:
”

3. How
Broad
Advocacy
including
Li/ga/on
• Providing
documentaMon
and
research
that
ethnic
profiling
is
taking
place
• Developing
soQ
law
norms:
– EurParl
recommendaMon
on
ethnic
profiling
– CoE
–
ECRI,
HR
Commissioner
– UN
supervisory
bodies
reporMng
(e.g.
CERD)

4. Advocacy
• FacilitaMng
access
to
/
dialogue
with
police
&
authoriMes
by
affected
communiMes;
• Improving
policing
pracMces
through
piloMng
and
providing
examples
of
good
and
bad
pracMces.
– STEPPS,
Hungary,
Bulgaria,
Spain
– FRA
guide
on
ethnic
profiling
– CriMcal
Police
Encounters,
The
Netherlands
• CoaliMons
and
partnerships
– Community
groups
–
NGOs
–
Equality
bodies

5. Li/ga/on
–
ul/mate
remedy,
but
also
driver
for
change/law
reform
(targeted
research,
who,
• Clear
establishment
of
issues
where,
extent)
• PlainMff
idenMficaMon
–
mobilisaMon
of
local
communiMes
and
NGOs
• PlainMff
support
• Technical
support
to
lawyers
– Case
digests
– Co-­‐draQing
of
legal
arguments
• Media
+online
campaign
• ImplementaMon
of
judgments,
internaMonal
decisions
(e.g.
UNHRC
Rosalind
Williams
case)

6. LiMgaMon
challenges
• No
clear
awareness
of
the
problem
within
affected
communiMes
• Working
with
vulnerable
groups
– Sustainability!
• Proof/evidence
• ConservaMve
legal
systems,
need
convincing