{"id":117950,"date":"2023-10-26T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/shameful-rise-in-racism-against-black-people-says-eu-survey\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:35:13","slug":"shameful-rise-in-racism-against-black-people-says-eu-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/shameful-rise-in-racism-against-black-people-says-eu-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shameful\u2019 rise in racism against black people, says EU survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117950\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nRacism towards people of African descent remains &#8220;relentless and pervasive&#8221;, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has said. A survey of black people living in 13 EU countries found many are subjected to discrimination and violence that &#8220;continues to haunt their daily lives&#8221;. In Germany, the number of people who felt discriminated against has almost doubled since the last survey in 2018. The findings should be &#8220;a wake-up call,&#8221; the EU agency said.<\/p>\n<p>From difficulties securing employment and housing, to experiencing harassment that leaves victims feeling &#8220;deeply traumatised&#8221;, the FRA has found that many black people in the EU routinely face bias and discrimination &#8220;just because of the colour of their skin&#8221;. The report surveyed more than 6,700 first- and second-generation black citizens living in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Poland, Sweden and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing this year&#8217;s survey results to those conducted five years ago, the report highlights the &#8220;alarming lack of progress&#8221; made towards addressing racism. In that time it said almost half of people of African descent experienced racial discrimination &#8211; an increase from 39% in 2016 to 45% in 2022. Looking at specific nations, 64% of those surveyed in Germany and Austria felt discriminated against in the past 12 months. That number rises to 76% in Germany over the past five years, followed by Austria with 72% and Finland with 63%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the reality for many people in the EU today&#8230; people of African descent are routinely met with unfair treatment and bias when seeking jobs or homes&#8221;, said Michael O&#8217;Flaherty, director of the FRA. Last year, Germany&#8217;s government appointed its first anti-racism commissioner, Reem Alabali-Radovan, who reacted to the survey by saying it proved how important it was to focus on boosting prevention and empowering those affected by racism.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, Sweden and Portugal had the lowest rates of harassment and discrimination in the 13 EU countries, according to those surveyed. In 2019, there was outrage in Austria after a far-right deputy mayor wrote a poem comparing migrants to rats that should &#8220;quickly hurry away&#8221;. Christian Schilcher, from the far-right Freedom Party, wrote: &#8220;Just as we live down here, so must other rats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year, Vilhelm Junnila, of Finland&#8217;s far-right Finns Party, resigned after being accused of making repeated Nazi references. A month later, Finland&#8217;s finance minister, Riikka Purra, was forced to apologise for a string of racist comments she posted 15 years ago. In a post written in 2008, complaining about young people of immigrant origin on a train, she said: &#8220;If they gave me a gun, there&#8217;d be bodies on a commuter train, you see.&#8221; Mr O&#8217;Flaherty said being confronted with the true scale of racism in the EU was both &#8220;shocking and shameful&#8221; and that racial discrimination had no place in Europe. The FRA would continue to work to &#8220;help ensure everybody is treated equally and with dignity&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-67217771\">BBC<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/recap-en\/shameful-rise-in-racism-against-black-people-says-eu-survey\/\">\u2018Shameful\u2019 rise in racism against black people, says EU survey<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[672,274,1336,564,1174,887,1534],"class_list":["post-117950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-black","tag-eu","tag-people","tag-racism","tag-recap-en","tag-rise","tag-survey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}