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National law defines the racial discrimination as in ICERD and EU law.

Qualitative Info

The Law 62/2003 of fiscal, administrative and socila measures defines the principle of equality as «the inexistence of any kind of direct or indirect discrimination due to racial, ethnical religious or ideological reasons as well as in the case of a handicap, age or sexual orientation reasons».
              
The Organic Law 4/2000, of January 11th about the Rights and Obligations of Foreigners in Spain and their ocial Integraation defines in its article no. 23the discriminatory acts. E.g: considering this law,discrimination can be defined as "any cact that directly or indirectly implies a diferentiation, exclution, restriction or preference agains a foreign person and based on its race, color, ancestry or national origin, ideology and religious practices. Having this discrimintation the gol of distroying or limminting, in equality conditions, the recognition or exercise of  human   rights and basic liberties in the political, social and cultural areas".

External Url http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2003/12/31/pdfs/A46874-46992.pdf

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Yes, in the same terms as defined in Race and Employment Directives.

Qualitative Info

The Law 62/2003 of december 30th defines direct and direct discrimination: when one person will be trated in a less favourable way than another in an analougs situation for racial, ethnical religious or ideological reasons as well as in the case of a handicap, age or sexual orientation reasons" And indirect discrimination takes place "when  a legal disposition, a conventional or regulatory clause, an individual agreement or an unilateral decision, which are apparently neutral, can eventually create a disadvantage for one person with respect to the others for racial, ethnical religious or ideological reasons as well as in the case of a handicap, age or sexual orientation reasons. Taking into account that the latter do not obbey a legitimate reason, and that the means used to achieve this objective are not the adequate and necessary ones. This law defines harassment as "any not desired behaviour related with racial, ethnical religious or ideological reasons as well as in the case of a handicap, age or sexual orientation reasons that intend to attempt on a person's dignity and create a threatening, humilliating and ofensive atmosphere".

External Url http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2003/12/31/pdfs/A46874-46992.pdf

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Yes. National law covers all grounds as in ICERD and EU law.

Qualitative Info

It covers all the groups and areas included in the Race and Employment Directives.

External Url http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2003/12/31/pdfs/A46874-46992.pdf

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No

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In Spain there is no specific legislation against racism and hate crimes. Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law has not been expressly implemented in the Spanish legal system. Nonetheless, the acts contemplated by the Decision are regulated in the Organic Law 10/1995 (Criminal Code). In the Sixth Final Provision of the reformed in June 2010 Spanish Criminal Code, reformed in June 2010, which refers to the “Incorporation of European Union law”, all the EU rules are listed which are incorporated into Spanish law by means of this legal reform. The list does not contain Decision 2008/913/JHA.
As far as the national legislation in the field of racist and other hate crimes is concerned, the acts contemplated by the Decision are currently regulated in the Criminal Code. The Criminal Code generally qualifies as circumstances aggravating criminal liability “the perpetration of an offence out of racist, antisemitic or other kinds of discriminatory motives related to the victim’s ideology, religion or beliefs, the ethnic group, race or nation to which the victim belongs, gender, sexual orientation or identity, illness or handicap of the victims". The Article 510 of the Criminal Code specifically penalizes incitement to "discrimination, hate or violence against groups or associations out of racist, antisemitic or other kinds of discriminatory motives related to the victim’s ideology, religion or beliefs, family situation, the ethnic group, race or nation to which the victims belongs, gender, sexual orientation or identity, illness or handicap of the victims". The same article penalizes those who, aware of its falsehood or in wanton contempt for the truth, disseminate injurious information about these groups for the mentioned reasons. The implementation problems with respect to art. 510 arise because the article talks about "provoke", which is the need to prove the cause / effect, and not "incite".
Punishable are further illicit associations, being those which promote discrimination, hate or violence against individuals, groups or associations out of racist, antisemitic or other kinds of discriminatory motives related to the victim’s ideology, religion or beliefs, family situation, the ethnic group, race or nation to which the victims belongs, gender, sexual orientation or identity, illness or handicap of the victims, or which incite to these acts (art. 515.5 Criminal Code).
Moreover, article 525 of the Criminal Code penalizes those who, with the intent to offend the feelings of the members of a religious confession, publicly mock their dogma’s, beliefs, rites or ceremonies, be it orally, in writing or by means of any kind of document, or publicly harass those who profess or practise them. The same penalties apply to those who act in this way against those who do not profess any religion or creed.
Article 607, included in Chapter II on offences related to genocide, penalizes those who, with the intent of fully or partially destroying a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, disseminate by any means ideas or doctrines justifying crimes of genocide or seek the rehabilitation of regimes or institutions which support practices leading to crimes of genocide. It should be pointed out that the Constitutional Court in Judgement 235/2007 of 7 November 2007 declared unconstitutional the provision contained in article 607.2 of the Criminal Code, which penalizes as an offence the denial of genocide, considering that this conduct, if not expressed by way of insult, is protected by the freedom of speech. The Court indicated that the declarations should contain elements that incite hatred against a specific racial group or at least represent a clear contempt.
On 17 September 2010 Spain published the ratification of the Convention on Cybercrime and its Additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, done in Budapest on 23 November 2001. The Convention entered into force in Spain on 1 October 2010. The text of the ratification does not contain any reservations to the Convention. It does however contain a declaration regarding the application of the Protocol to Gibraltar as a dependent territory of the United Kingdom.

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No.

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No

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No.

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Yes

Qualitative Info

Punishable are further illicit associations, being those which promote discrimination, hate or violence against individuals, groups or associations out of racist, antisemitic or other kinds of discriminatory motives related to the victim’s ideology, religion or beliefs, family situation, the ethnic group, race or nation to which the victims belongs, gender, sexual orientation or identity, illness or handicap of the victims, or which incite to these acts (art. 515.5 Criminal Code).

External Url http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Penal/lo10-1995.html

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No

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There is no evidence, but there are estimates  that are significantly fewer cases reported  than actually occur.

Qualitative Info

The Fourth Report about Spain ECRI claims that since 2005 there have only been ten cases in which a racist motivation has been found as an aggravating circumstance. Related to the aplication of the article 510, only four cases have derived in successful judicial action since 2005. International Amnisty has also reported this (Recomendation N. 10 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI). The Ministry of Internal Affairs foresees much lower figures than thoses estimated by the NGO Movement agaisnt Intolerance for 2008. On the other side, the Attorney of Barcelona, Service for Hate and Discrimination Crimes talks in its Memoire about this: "It is truly believed that many of the committed crimes are not reported, with an submerged but existing number of actions that the victims  are not brave enough to report or actually ignore they can do it". Also the report "Board about Discrimination for Racial or Ethnical Origin (2010): the perception of potencial victims", elaborated by the Counseil for the Promotion of Equality of Treatment and Non Discrimination of People for Racial or Ethnical Reasons, shows that only 4.3% of those people who have suffered some kind of discriminatory behavior on them have reported it. And only 21% of those who did would do it again.

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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No.

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"ECRI recommends that not only initial but also in-service training for police,
private security personnel, prosecutors, forensic doctors, lawyers and judges
includes compulsory courses on human rights, equal treatment, non
discrimination and the Criminal Code provisions in force to combat racism and
racial discrimination.". (Recomendation number 4 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI)

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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No

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"ECRI recommends that not only initial but also in-service training for police, private security personnel, prosecutors, forensic doctors, lawyers and judges includes compulsory courses on human rights, equal treatment, non discrimination and the Criminal Code provisions in force to combat racism and racial discrimination.". (Recomendación No. 43 del Cuarto Informe sobre España ECRI).

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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Yes, although there are few court cases  that apply this aggravating.

Qualitative Info

According to the article number 22 of the Penal Code (Law 10/1995), the following are aggravating circumstances "the commission of the offense for racist, anti-Semit reasons or another type of discrimination related to ideology, religion, beliefs, ethnic group, race or country, sexual orientation or identity, ilness or handicap". In October 2009 takes place the first sentence to include ideological discrimination as an aggravating circumstance in a murder case. The Court Decision 419/2009 (Provincial Court of Madrid) senstence a a man who was going to attend an extreme right-wing demonstration under the leitmotif “Against Anti-Spanish Racism” mortally stabbed with a flick knife he was carrying one of a group of youngsters. These youngsters were wearing classically anti-fascist clothes. It was because of asking about and touching with a finger the sweatshirt that he victim has stabbed.  Two of the youngsters were also hurt when trying to disarm the  perpetrator. The judge sentenced the murderer to spend 26 years in prison and to pay nearly 160,000 € to the victim’s parents.

External Url http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Penal/lo10-1995.html

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

The aticle number 66 of the Penal Code establishes that "when only one or two aggravating circumstances take place, the sentence will be applied on the upper half of what is fixed by the Law for that offense". SInce year 2005, this aggravating has only been applied in ten cases (Recomendation number 10 of the Fourth report about Spain ECRI). Concerninng the types of sanctions it will depend on the penal circumstances they are charged on.

External Url http://www.lexureditorial.com/leyes/cp04z4.htm

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Yes.

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The Article 23.2a of the OL 4/2000 of January the11th about the Rights and Freedoms of Foreigners in Spain and their Social Integration, in its writting (made by the Organic Laws 8/2000 of December the 22nd, 11/2003 of September the 29th, 14/2003 of November the 20th and 2/2009 of December the 11th), it establishes as a discrimination act "those carried out by the authorities or civil servants or employees in charge of a public service, that in the exercise of their tasks, actively or passively, commit any discriminatory act forbiden by law against a foreigner only for the fact of being one or for the fact of belonging to a certain  race, ethnic group or nationaliy". The rule stablishes administrative sanctions , in the case of crimes the Penal Code would be followed.

External Url http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/lo4-2000.html

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Complaints are few, even fewer  sentences. However there are no statistics.

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Yes.

Plataforma per Cataluña - 67 municipal councillors
Democracia Nacional - 5 municipal councillors

No representatives of racist or xenophobic parties in parliament.

Qualitative Info

Even though in the Fourth Report of the ERCI about Spain only mentions one openly xenophobic political party (Plataforma per Cataluña), there are other regional or national parties such as emocracia Nacional, Falange Española de las Jons or Alternativa Española that with very or no representations in townhalls can be considered xenophobic. For example Democracia Española 2000 had the following slogan in the regional elections of 2011 "Not even one more (foreigners), Spanish people first".

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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Yes.

 

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PLATAFORMA PER CATALUYA.

• How long has it been in existence? April, 5 - 2002
• Does the party have elected representatives at national/local/regional level? 67 city councelors in townhalls.
• Please provide an assessment of its significance level - in terms of constituting a real, tangible threat to the interests of a particular group(s) [naming the group(s) in question]. Ultraright xenophobic party. Its slogan in 2011 was "Let's control inmigration". The number of votes in 2011  local elections was multiplied by six to respect of those of 2007.No mayor belonging to this party exists and it does not represent a real danger for inmigrants at this point in time, but it is forecasted that the party will improve its results in the next elections, especially if the econmic crisis persists.
• If there is evidence of engaging in violence or expressing hate speech, please provide a summary of key evidence (quantitative or qualitative) to substantiate your response, noting the principal motive for these policies/actions and select the relevant type of activity(from the relvant table). The leader of this party (Josep Anglada) is waiting to be processed for issuing xenophobic flyers. Most of the NGOs, media and relevant political parties in Spain define them as xenophobic. www.pxcatalunya.com

ESPAÑA 2000.

• How long has it been in existence? since 2002
• Does the party have elected representatives at national/local/regional level? 5 city councelors in townhalls.
• Please provide an assessment of its significance level - in terms of constituting a real, tangible threat to the interests of a particular group(s) [naming the group(s) in question]. They are only represented in three Spanish townhalls.
• If there is evidence of engaging in violence or expressing hate speech, please provide a summary of key evidence (quantitative or qualitative) to substantiate your response, noting the principal motive for these policies/actions and select the relevant type of activity.(from the relvant table). They organize different demonstrations with xenophobic slogans. Their president Jose Luis Roberto has been repeatedly acused of xenophobic offenses. Most of the NGOs, media and relevant political parties in Spain define them as xenophobic http://www.esp2000.org/

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No.

Qualitative Info

Even though the the xneophobic speech is not usual in the Spanish political scene there are more and more exceptions such those protaginized during the 2011 electoral campaign by some memers of the oposition party in that moment (PP). We are refering to the afterwards elected mayor of Badalona Xavier García Albiol who has been atributed with a crime for distributing xenophobic flyers and for describing rumanian gyspsies as a "plague".

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No.

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

In October of 2009 the Council  for the Equality of Treatment and Non Discrimination of People due to their Racial or Ethnical Origin was created. This organization regulates among other things legal advicing to victims, the mediation or assistance in matters such as accomodation/housing, education of health.  http://www.igualdadynodiscriminacion.org/home.do                                                                      
On the other hand in September of 2011 the Government aproved the Strategic Plan of Citizenship and Integration of 2011-2014 which substitutes the previous one 2007-2010. The Strategic Plans expects to reinforce integration tools and plocies as well as public and participation services in order to equally guarantee the access of all citizens to them. In December 2008 the Government of Spain adopted the first Human Rights Plan (“Plan de Derechos Humanos”). The Plan sets out 172 concrete measures to be taken relating to equality, non-discrimination, integration and human rights guarantees. It covers
both foreign and domestic action, including a series of objectives on equal treatment, integration and combating racism and xenofobia. Las of all, the Action Plan for the Development of the Gypsy Population 2010-2012 integrates the main aspects related to social integration of gypsy population. Some of these main aspects are equality of treatment and gender equality and the exercise of basic rights sucha as  the acces to a home, to employment, to education and to health care. http://www.msc.es/politicaSocial/inclusionSocial/docs/planDefinitivoAccion.pdf                 

External Url http://www.msc.es/politicaSocial/inclusionSocial/docs/planDefinitivoAccion.pdf

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

All the 17 Autonomour Communities of the Spanish State own different degrees of competencies in social policies. Some Comunities carry out different policies directed to the integration of inmigrants such as the 3rd Integral Plan of Andalucía (2010-2013), the Plan for Citizenship and Inmigration 2009-2012 of the Generalitat of Cataluña or the 3rd Plan of Inmigration, Citizenship and Coexsistence of the Basque Country.

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Yes

Qualitative Info

Among the many that exist, these are three of the most relevant:
SOS Racismo, Fundacion Secretariado Gitano and Movimiento contra la Intolerancia.

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- SOS Racismo.

Size-membership. 11 federations in Spain.

Does the organisation provide advice and support for victims of racist violence or hate crime?  Yes

Have the organisation and its members been subjected to violence of abuse as a result of their defence of human rights? No

The main proyect of the Federation is the publication of the Annual Report about Racism in Spain. It also includes the nation-wide campaigns. It is worth it to point out: the Office of Information and Reports and the Pedagogical Area http://sosracismo.es/

- Fundacion Secretariado Gitano.

Size-membership. 600 people under contract.

Does the organisation provide advice and support for victims of racist violence or hate crime?  Yes

Have the organisation and its members been subjected to violence of abuse as a result of their defence of human rights? No data

The Fondation Gypsy Secretariat (FSGG) is a non-profit social entity developed by the gypsy community all over Spain and at a European Level. It started  functioning in the 60's although it was really constituted as a Foundation in 2001. The mission of the FSGG is the promotion of the complete integration of the gypsy community while respecting it cultural identity.                           

The main objectives are to support the access of gypsies to rights, services and social resources in equality of conditions with respect of the rest of the citizens. In this sense it develops many activities in order to improve life quality of gypsies and to promote recognition, support  and development of gypsies and their cultural identity.

- Movimiento contra la Intolerancia.

Size-membership. no data. It has  5,000 volunteers. The number of partners has not been provided

Does the organisation provide advice and support for victims of racist violence or hate crime?  Yes

Have the organisation and its members been subjected to violence of abuse as a result of their defence of human rights? No

NGO aims to create in our democratic society a sense of the violent rejection of any sign. Its objectives are the Defense of  Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and the elimination of violence for conflict resolution, intolerance and totalitarian ideologies and the development of tolerance, solidarity and participative democracy.

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

- Fundacion Secretariado Gitano: member of the National Council of  Social Action NGO's, of the Plataform of Social Action NGO's, member of of the National Council of the Gypsy Community and the Consultative Commission for the Plan of Gypsy Development and also member of different european organisms for the defense of minorities.                                                     

- Movement against intolerance: member of the Council for Equality of Treatmen, of Madrid's Observatory against Racism and Intolerance, as well as of the Observatory of Violence and Racism in Sports. It also promotes the initiatives of Civic Network against Anti-Semitism and the Plataform against Islam-Phobia. Last of all, t is also a member different european organisms for the defense of minorities.

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Yes.

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The Forum for Social Integration of Inmigrants is a consultative, informative and advicing organism in terms of integration of inmigrnts. It is subscribed to the Minstry of Employment and Inmigration. Its composition will be valable from 2010 to 2013. This Forum represents the public administrations, the associations of inmigrants and refugees and the social support organizations. When the government stats the elaboration of laws related to social matters, it often opens a period for consultation with the implied social actors. In some cases this consultation period has not taken place or it has not been wide enought, as reported many times by social organizations.

External Url http://www.papelesespana.com/documentacion/foro-para-la-integracion-social-de-los-inmigrantes.html

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

SOS RACISMO (Case Libreria Kalki por 510 CP, in this moment being appealed in front of the Constitutional Court;

Accusation against J.Anglada, Plataforma per Catalunya(PER) por 510 CP, still without a sentence).

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

According to the fourth report ECRI about Spain (Point number 40) "police bodies receive formation about human rights and other subjects related to racism and discrimination, but the participation in this kind of courses is voluntary.According to some sources, human rights have only a marginal presence in police training. The training is theoretical and designed to transmit knowledge
rather than shape attitudes and valúes". Nevertheless, there are police guides on these subjects.

External Url http://www.mtin.es/es/alianza_civilizaciones/documenta_interes/guia_policia.pdf

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No

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No

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Yes, some indications.

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Several NGOs  highly relevant, have complained in recent times harsh and discriminatory treatment in detention centers for foreigners.

Two foreigners have died in recent months in these centers, victims of diseases not treated in time.
Such centers are not regulated its internal operations and are constantly reported to all kinds of anti discrimination agencies both Spanish and international.

Moreover, some NGOs have spent months denouncing the indiscriminate police raids carried out especially in metro stations or places frequented by foreigners. It seems that the only reason of the selection is that the person "has body features of foreign person"

These raids may end up with dozens of detainees, Caules, in many cases, become centers for foreigners and are eventually expelled from the country. Even there are cases of foreigners who the police have asked for documentation or detained several times in the same week, especially in large cities.

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http://www.cadenaser.com/sociedad/articulo/defensor-pueblo-investigara-controles-policiales-inmigrantes-centros-caritas/csrcsrpor/20110318csrcsrsoc_2/Tes

http://elpais.com/elpais/2011/03/17/actualidad/1300353440_850215.html

http://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/v/20120113/jerez/denuncian-controles-policiales-criterios-20120113.html

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No

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No data.

Qualitative Info

The Fourth Report about Spain ECRI claims that since 2005 there have only been ten cases in which a racist motivation has been found as an aggravating circumstance. Related to the aplication of the article 510, only four cases have derived in successful judicial action since 2005.International Amnisty has also reported it (Recomendation number 10 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI). The Ministry of Internal Affairs foresees much lower figures than thoses estimated by the NGO Movement agaisnt Intolerance for 2008. On the other side, the Attorney of Barcelona, Service for Hate and Discrimination Crimes talks in its Memoire about this: "It is truly believed that many of the committed crimes are not reported, with an submerged but existing number of actions that the victims  are not brave enough to report or actually ignore they can do it". Also the report "Board about Discrimination for Racial or Ethnical Origin (2010): the perception of potencial victims", elaborated by the Counseil for the Promotion of Equality of Treatment and Non Discrimination of People for Racial or Ethnical Reasons, shows that only 4.3% of those people who have suffered some kind of discriminatory behavior on them have reported it. And only 21% of those who did would do it again. 

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No data.

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No data.

Qualitative Info

he European Court of Human Righs has condemned Spain in several ocasions for not properly investigating the alegations of torture. Even though the Spanish gocernment only admints isolated cases International Amnesty reports that the governent has not made enought efforts in otder to gather and publish all the data about thuis subject. This is why "a situation of impunity has been exacerbated which promotes the apearence of new mistreatment cases year after year" in Spain.

External Url http://humania.s3.amazonaws.com/inst_000001/files/humania_glob441_La_tortura_como_receta_junio11.pdf

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No.

Qualitative Info

The Attorney of Barcelona, Service for Hate and Discrimination Crimes talks in its Memoire about this: "It is truly believed that many of the committed crimes are not reported, with an submerged but existing number of actions that the victims  are not brave enough to report or actually ignore they can do it". Also the report "Board about Discrimination for Racial or Ethnical Origin (2010): the perception of potencial victims", elaborated by the Counseil for the Promotion of Equality of Treatment and Non Discrimination of People for Racial or Ethnical Reasons, shows that only 4.3% of those people who have suffered some kind of discriminatory behavior on them have reported it. And only 21% of those who did would do it again.

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No

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

Main labor unions in Spain: CCOO and UGT

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

Main labor unions in Spain: CCOO and UGT

External Url http://www.ccoo.es/csccoo/menu.do

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No data.

Qualitative Info

It cannot be said that there still are significative levels of segregation. A part of the foreign population of the country tends to live in the neighborhoods where the rent is lower such as the mentioned areas in Madrid and Barceona. For this same reasons, the towns near to the big cities also count with a big percentage of foreign population.

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No data.

PECI (Strategic Plan for Citizenship and Integration 2011) warns of high risk / segregation trends in Spain in areas such as education and housing but does not provide  specific data.

Qualitative Info

The survey "Panel on racial and ethnic discrimination (2010): The perception of potential victims" reveals that ethnic and racial discrimination seems to be particularly acute in the areas of housing. It is important to stress that all these attitudes in the housing and employment. In housing area, the most important practical obstacles for migrants to have full access to housing are: discriminatory housing advertisements; denials by a number of real estate agencies or private house owners to rent flats to migrants or members of ethnic minorities; and additional requirements for migrants to get access to social housing.

External Url http://extranjeros.mtin.es/es/IntegracionRetorno/Plan_estrategico2011/pdf/PECI-2011-2014.pdf

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No data.

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 Lavapies Neighborhood (Madrid) - 34% inmigrants. El Raval Neighborhood (Barcelona) 48% inmigrants.

'Significant' is a subjective' term which provides a certain degree of liberty to the national experts to choose which cases to report on the basis of indpendent authoritative reports/research. It cannot be said that there still are significative levels of segregation. A part of the foreign population of the country tends to live in the neighborhoods where the rent is lower sucha as the mentioned areas in Madrid and Barceona. For this same reasons, the towns near to the big cities also count with a big percentage of foreign population.

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No data.

Qualitative Info

Although there is no official data. Many institutions, associations and NGOs in Spain suggest that Roma ethyne could be the most segregated minority group.

Housing, education, employment and social perception are some of the areas in which most affect these reports.

As example, we include the link of European Roma Rights Centre (ERCC) where can be found several reports on the segregation of the Roma community in Spain.

External Url http://www.errc.org/en-search-results.php?mcountry=194&mtheme=1&marea=1&mkeyword=Enter+keywords+...&ok=OK

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No data.

Qualitative Info

Even though there are no quantitative data related to this, in the Report about Housing of the NGO SOS Racism, some examples of discrimination against Romany citizens and inmigrants can be found.
http://www.sosracismo.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=31&Itemid=10&lang=es

External Url http://www.sosracismo.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=31&Itemid=10&lang=es

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No policies.

Yes evidences.

Qualitative Info

 In Spain there are no schools for minorities but in thoses areas in which a higher percentage of one kind of inmigrants are concentrated this is also reflected in schools. There are some concrete cases in which the percentage of inmigrants or gipsies goes up to 90%. This does not seem, however, to be due to segregation policies. Nevertheless, the ERCI recomends the Spanish Government to revise the policies of admission of minorities in public schools and state subsidized schools in order to avoid these imbalances (Recomendation number 65 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI).

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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No policies.

Yes evidences.

Qualitative Info

Many gipsies live in big comunities it is for this reason than in many cases the nearest school counts with a percentage of gipsies of 90%. The Report ECRI 2010 recomends the revision of school asignment in public and state subsidized centers for the gypsy population (Recomendation number 65 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI). 

External Url http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-country/spain/ESP-CBC-IV-2011-004-ESP.pdf

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No.

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Yes.

Qualitative Info

Thousands of  professionals of communication are native from the regions with autochthonous language or dialect. some of them are foreign, usually Latin American people.

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No data.

Qualitative Info

 There are cases of hate speech but there are no data at national level. The NGOs "Movement Agaisnt Intolerance" and "SOS Racism" posses the estimates of some regions of Spain.

External Url www. sos racismo.org

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Yes.

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Example: In October 2008 in the match of the Champions League played in Madrid between the Atlético de Madrid and the Olimpique de Marsella. After some confrontations in the tier and a baton charge, the French club reported that the Atletic fans were intoning racist songs. The Control and Discipline Commission of the UEFA penalized the Spanish club with the closing of its playing field for two matches and a 150,000 euros penalty, for "the disproportionate behaviour” of the police and "the racist and antidemocratic songs and symbols” in the tier.

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Source: Preventing racism, xenophobia and related intolerance in sport 2009.

External Url http://www.csd.gob.es/csd/sociedad/5ViolDep/leycontraviolencia/

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Yes.
Law against  violence, racism, xenophobia  and intolerance in sport.  (2007).

Qualitative Info

Hate speech and racist slogans are ground for sanctions against sports clubs according to major footbal and major sports' associations' regulations (e.g.UEFA, FIBA)

External Url http://www.csd.gob.es/csd/sociedad/5ViolDep/leycontraviolencia/

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