Annual Report Discrimination 2015

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Discrimination and the Roma community, 2015
This is a direct quote:
“Taxpayers’ money should not be used to subsidise social groups who, either due to their culture or
genetic makeup, simply do not want to work.” Romanians, Gypsies, Bulgarians, Muslims.”
In this case we were disheartened to see political party representatives making comments that foster hatred
and racism against the Roma community and incite the rejection of Roma in general both in Spain and the rest
of Europe.
In April 2015 the Council for the Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination published a recommendation call-
ing on candidates to “Avoid discriminatory, racist or xenophobic language in electoral campaigns” with a view
to preventing messages like this one in May’s regional and local elections. The FSG took part in drafting this
recommendation:
uso_discursos_racistas_07052015_.pdf
33. National. Internet. Direct discrimination. The FSG alert service identified an Internet forum with racist and
xenophobic content targeting the Roma community.
We contacted the web page administrator and are happy to say that they eliminated it.
34. National. Internet. Direct discrimination.
The alert service forwarded us an email from a person informing us of this web page which features a “Gypsy
chat” where people can air their negative stereotypes about Roma: