Anti-discrimination Law

From 2001 to 2004, the Migration Policy Group worked with two partner organisations, Interights  in London and the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest, on the project Implementing European Anti-Discrimation Law.

The aim was to monitor the implementation of Council Directive 2000/43/EC (Racial Equality Directive) and the ratification process of Protocol 12 which broadens the scope of the European Convention on Human Rights' Article 14.

The initiative involved 26 countries - originally the EU-15 and 11 candidate countries and from 1 May 2004, 8 new member states plus 3 candidate countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.

The project based its work on national legal research conducted by local lawyers analysing existing legal provisions and relevant jurisprudence pertaining to racial and other forms of discrimination in comparison with the Racial Equality Directive and Protocol 12.