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Discrimination and the Roma Community 2014
Information and awareness raising actions:
Together with the activity carried out during the first
year of work, in this new period of service (March 2014
to March 2015), with a view to providing opportunities
for participation, coordination, work, reflection and ex-
change between the service provider organisations, we
have been working on creating Monitoring Committees
at territorial level designed to analyse, reach consensus
on and establish general lines of cooperation and joint
action on the ground where the Assistance Service is
officially set up.
The aim of these Committees is to promote the spread
of the service throughout the territory, get information
to potential victims and encourage coordinated work
by involving other local agents and social organisations
in our efforts. These Committees serve as an operation-
al instrument with which we intend to bolster the work
being done by the Service in the territories.
To date, over 200 potential victims of discrimination
have benefited from awareness-raising and information
actions planned and implemented to defend the right to
equality through the territorial commissions in Valencia,
Andalusia, Catalonia and Castile-Leon. The objective for
2015 is to continue forming the rest of the territorial
committees in the other Autonomous Communities and
continue engaging in information and awareness-raising
in each of them.
Following are the main results:
•
Number of incidents of discrimination recorded in
the period (2013-2014). From 15 March 2013 to 14
September 2014, the assistance service for victims
of discrimination addressed a total of 806 cases of
discrimination, 475 individual cases and 331 collective
cases.
Graph 1. Cases addressed by the Assistance Service.
Period 2013-2014
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
231
145
315
237
2013
2014
Individual cases
Collective cases
Number of incidents of discrimination by area (2013-2014).
Area
Individual cases:
n=475
Collective cases
n=331
Total
n=806
Employment
88
84
172
Education
30
27
57
Health
49
6
55
Housing
45
20
65
Sports
7
3
10
Access to justice
14
0
14
Citizen security
91
21
112
Culture
1
0
1
Social Services
32
12
44
Communication and Internet
11
113
124
Access to goods and services
47
19
66
Other
61
25
86