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Yes.

 

Qualitative Info

The Constitution of Finland contains a specific general provision against discrimination, defining it as differential treatment of someone without an acceptable reason on a prohibited ground of discrimination. The Constitution provides: "Everyone is equal before the law. No one shall, without an acceptable reason, be treated differently from other persons on the ground of sex, age, origin, language, religion, conviction, opinion, health, disability or other reason that concerns his or her person."

 

The provision is in conformity with art. 1.1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1999/en19990731.pdf

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Yes, national law is in confirmity with the directives with regards to definition of discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnic origin and/or religion.

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The Non-Discrimination Act (Section 6:1) defines direct discrimination as "the treatment of a person less favourably than the way another person is treated, has been treated or would be treated in a comparable situation" (Non-Discrimination Act, Section 6:1).

 

Indirect discrimination means "that an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice puts a person at a particular disadvantage compared with other persons, unless said provision, criterion or practice has an acceptable aim and the means used are appropriate and necessary for achieving this aim." (Section 6:2).

 

Harrassment is defined as "the deliberate or de facto infringement of the dignity and integrity of a person orgroup of people by the creation of a intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment." (Section 6:3).

 

The Non-Discrimination Act also defines an instruction or order to discriminate as discrimination (Section 6:4)

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040021.pdf

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Yes, the national law covers also additional grounds.

Qualitative Info

The Constitution of Finland (Section 6) covers discrimination on the grounds of sex, age, origin, language, religion, conviction, opinion, health, disability or other reason that concerns his or her person.

 

The Non-Discrimination Act (Section 6) covers discrimination on the grounds of age, ethnic or national origin, nationality, language, religion, belief, opinion, health, disability, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics.

 

The Criminal Code provision on discrimination (Section 10:11) covers discrimination on the grounds of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, language, sex, age, family ties, sexual preference, state of health, religion, political orientation, political or
industrial activity or another comparable circumstance,

 

The Criminal Code provision on work discrimination (Section 47:3) and extortionate work discrimination (47:3a) covers discrimination on the grounds of race, national or ethnic origin, nationality, colour, language, sex, age, family status, sexual preference or state of health, religion, political opinion, political or industrial activity or a comparable circumstance.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

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Yes, there is legislation against racist and hate crime.

Qualitative Info

The Criminal Code contains a provision prohibiting incitement to hatred (Section 11:10) and aggravated incitement to hatred (Section 11:10a) on the grounds of race, colour of skin, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability.  

 

Furthermore, the Criminal Code contains a provision for increasing the punishment (Section 6:5). The ground for increasing the punishment is that the offence is motivated by the victim's race, colour of skin, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability or other comparable motive.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

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No, national legislation does not provide a legal definition of racist-hate crime.

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N/A

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Yes, there is a legal definition of hate-speech.

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The Criminal Code defines incitement to hatred as spreading of statements or other information among the public where a certain group is defamed or insulted on the ground of race, colour of skin, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability or comparable reason.

The Criminal Code also contains provisions on defamation (Section 24:9) and aggravated defamation (24:10). Defamation is defined as spreading of false information or a false insinuation of another person so that the act is conducive to causing damage or suffering to that person, or subjecting that person to contempt. The act is aggravated, if the offence is committed by using the mass media or otherwise by making the information or insinuation available to many persons.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

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No, there are no legal definitions of racist incident and violence.

Qualitative Info

The police practice in classifying a reported incident as a racist concerns the motivation of the act. The police will mark the report of an offence with a code denoting racist incident, if there are grounds to suspect that the perpetrator's/perpetrators' motivation was the victim's/victims' belonging to a national, racial or ethnic group.

 

The provision on increasing the punishement on grounds of racist motivation is applicable to all types of crimes with the exception of discrimination, work discrimination and agitation to hatered on grounds of national, racial or ethnic origin. These three types of crime are viewed as containing in themselves the prohibition of racism.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

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No, there is no such legislation.

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N/A

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Yes, there has been one evaluation of anti-racist legislation's application in practice.

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In 2008, the Police College of Finland carried out an evaluation on how suspected crimes with racist characteristics proceed in the criminal justice process in Helsinki area.

 

The evaluation found that out of the 192 suspected crimes with racist characteristics that were reported to the police in 2006, altogether 115 proceed to the public prosecutor for consideration of charges. The prosecutor brought charges in 72 offences and the courts passed a judgement in 57 offences. The courts did not apply the provision on increasing the sentence at all.

External Url http://www.poliisiammattikorkeakoulu.fi/poliisi/poliisioppilaitos/home.nsf/files/Raportteja73_Peutere_eng_suojattu/$file/Raportteja73_Peutere_eng_suojattu.pdf

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No estimates or evidence regarding this issue exist.

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N/A

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There is no up-to-date reports on this issue available from authoritative sources.

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One manner in which to analyse the operational effectiveness of the Finnish police in combating racist violence is to look at how well the police identify racist characteristics. The police officers are supposed to mark the report of an offence with a racism code, if he/she or the victim suspects that the incident was racially motivated. However,the annual reports on hate crime (previously annual reports on racist crime) disclose that approximately only 40 per cent of the reports of an offence contained in the annual report are marked with the racism code. Accordingly, each year the researcher of the annual report identifies several additional reports of an offence with racist characteristics.

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No, there are reasons to regard the judiciary as not combating racist violence adequately and effectively.

Qualitative Info

The provision on increasing the sentence is seldomly applied in the courts. This is the main finding of the evaluation on how suspected crimes with racist characteristics proceed in the criminal justice process in Helsinki area carried out by the Police College of Finland. It discloses that out of the 192 suspected crimes with racist characteristics reported to the police in 2006, altogether 115 proceed to the public prosecutor for consideration of charges. The prosecutor brought charges in 72 offences and the courts passed a judgement in 57 offences. The courts did not apply the provision on increasing the sentence at all

External Url http://www.poliisiammattikorkeakoulu.fi/poliisi/poliisioppilaitos/home.nsf/files/Raportteja73_Peutere_eng_suojattu/$file/Raportteja73_Peutere_eng_suojattu.pdf

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Yes, racist motivation is treated as an aggravating circumstance.

Qualitative Info

The Criminal Code contains a provision for increasing the punishment (Section 6:5). The ground for increasing the punishment is that the offence is motivated by the victim's race, colour of skin, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability or other comparable motive.

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

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Yes, there is a legal provision on racist motivation as an aggravating factor.

Qualitative Info

The Criminal Code contains a provision for increasing the punishment (Section 6:5). The ground for increasing the punishment is that the offence is motivated by the victim's race, colour of skin, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation and disability or other comparable motive.

There are no statistics available on how many times the provision is applied annually.

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No, national legislation does not provide specific sanctions against public servants.

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N/A

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No, there has not been any such reports.

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N/A

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Yes, there is a political party identifiable as promoting an anti-migrant agenda.

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Muutos 2011 r.p. (Change 2011) promotes an anti-migrant agenda as party, whereas the more mainstream parties have individual members who express, advocate and promote anti-migrant agenda.

 

In particular, Perussuomalaiset r.p. (the Finns) have individual members of parliament, who frequently express views advocating and promoting anti-migrant agenda. Nevertheless, it is important to note that they are not the only party in the Parliament whose individual MPs express such views.

External Url http://www.muutos2011.fi/cms/

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One party is clearly identifiable as promoting an anti-migrant agenda.

Qualitative Info

The agenda of Muutos 2011 r.p. emphasises a few issues classifiable as promoting anti-migrant agenda.

 

The party aims to to advance the interest of Finnish citizens: "The most important task of the state of Finland is to protect the rights of its citizens. Prosperity and wealth is to be primarily spread amongst citizens."

The party advocates freedom of expression without any such limitations as provided in the European Convention on Human Rights - namely, Article 10(2). The party agenda reads: "Restrictions to freedom of speech only advance the interest and goals of small groups. These same restrictions prevent dissidents from being heard. Freedom of speech should not only cover those ideas and thoughts that are well received and considered harmless or are generally ignored. Freedom of speech includes such messages and material that could potentially insult, shock or disturb the state or part of its population."

 

The party advocates for tighter immigration control:"Immigration in general must be economically profitable for the country. Most of immigrants today fall under humanitarian migration group. This group is not governed or required by obligations to UN. Humanitarian immigration is a homemade invention of Finnish civil servants and authorities. Finland has no international obligations regarding humanitarian immigration. Parliament must pass an immigration law pertaining to aliens where the key point is to guarantee the interest of citizens and the state. Prior to accepting this law a referendum binding the parliament must be held. Our operations program regarding immigration will lay the foundation for the new immigration and aliens law."

External Url http://www.muutos2011.fi/cms/

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Yes, many members of the mainstream political parties express views promoting tighter immigration policy.

Qualitative Info

Court of Appeal of Kouvola found a member of Parliament, James Hirvisaari (the Finns), guilty of ethnic agitation on 10.11.2011. The MP had expressed derogatory and insulting views about muslim immigrants in a blog writing. The District Court of Päijät-Häme acquitted the defendant, but the Court of Appeal found him guilty. He was sentenced to pay 1.425 euro in fines. The judgement is not legally binding, since Mr Hirvisaari has appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.

 

MP of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus r.p.), Mr Ben Zyskowicz, speaking in the Parliament, expressed as a solution to the "problem of anchor children" (i.e. family reunification of unaccompanied minors) the sending of children to Somalia: Families ought to be "reunited in Somalia" by sending children there. (Source: J. Förbum, "Hallan vaara - Merkintöjä maahanmuuton puhetavoista", Into Kustannus).

 

MP of the Centre Party (Keskusta r.p.), Mr Antti Rantakangas, speaking in the Parliament, regarded the immigration system non-functional, because it is "too attractive" for asylum seekers. (Source: J. Förbum, "Hallan vaara - Merkintöjä maahanmuuton puhetavoista", Into Kustannus).

 

Another MP of the National Coalition Party, Ms Tuulikki Ukkola, speaking in the Parliament, stated that "increase in racism, shows that immigration policy has failed for years." ((Source: J. Förbum, "Hallan vaara - Merkintöjä maahanmuuton puhetavoista", Into Kustannus).

 

External Url http://www.hs.fi/english/article/MP+James+Hirvisaari+fined+for+hate+speech/1135270024381 / http://www.intokustannus.fi/kirja/hallan_vaara/

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Yes, there are organisations that express racist or xenophobic sentiments, including discourse in form of hate speech, and promote an anti-migrant and/or anti-minority agenda.

Qualitative Info

Suomen Sisu Association (Suomen Sisu ry) declares as being an association of cooperation for nationalistic people. Its activites target the youth and it aims to convey their and other nationalistic people's opinions to the policy-makers.

 

The National Resistance Movement (Kansallinen vastarintaliike) claims to be protecting Finnish history, culture and identity. It claims to fight against integration and cultural decay, as well as to oppose integration of Finnish nation with other racial and national groups.

 

Homma Association (Homma ry) is devoted to advancing the mental and economic success of the Finnish society, local democracy, sustainable development, freedom of expression and the right of members' of the society to a cosy and safe living environment. One of the main form of its activities is the provision of a discussion forum for issues pertaining to multiculturalism and immigration policy.

External Url http://www.suomensisu.fi/; http://www.patriootti.com/; http://cms.hommaforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=18

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Yes, there are policies/programmes aimed at combating racism and related ideologies.

Qualitative Info

The most recent and significant programme containing policies aimed at combating racism is the Government's Internal Security Programme, which extends to the year 2015.

 

The Internal Security Programme identifies as one key area of security the need to improve the security of immigrants and ethnic minorities.The Internal Security Programme identifies as one key area of security the need to improve the security of immigrants and ethnic minorities. The programme inter alia outlines the following measures:

 

1. People moving to Finland permanently or temporarily will be offered more comprehensive information on Finnish legislation and the service system at the time of immigration and at various stages of the integration process.

2. Ethnic minority security issues will be incorporated in the planning system, and the involvement of ethnic minorities in planning will be increased. It will be ensured that all security authorities draw up equality plans and that local security plans are taken into account in municipal integration programmes.

3. A) It will be ensured that legislation and the judicial system can efficiently address racist crimes and racist messages on the internet by means of criminal law. The need for enacting an obligation for website hosts to monitor and remove material that fulfils the criteria of racist crime will be evaluated. Processing cases of racist crime will be enhanced by improving cooperation between the police and prosecutors so that the motives for crimes will be examined in sufficient detail. B) Consideration will be given to whether persons reporting an offence should be offered the opportunity to provide further information at the reporting stage or the pre-trial investigation stage for purposes of compiling statistics pertaining to discrimination crimes, such as the ground of discrimination or ethnic background. C) Agreement will be reached on the definition of racist crime used in the judicial system for the purpose of developing monitoring. D) The continuity of qualitative research on the progress of cases of suspected racist crime in the judicial system will be safeguarded, and sufficient research resources guaranteed.

 

The assessment of these measures is not possible, since many of them have been implemented only recently or have not been implemented at all. Most importantly, points 3B-D have not been implemented at all.

External Url http://www.intermin.fi/intermin/biblio.nsf/B48B12C5D837461AC22574C00025B90A/$file/252008.pdf

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No, local governance has not made significant attempts at combating racism and related ideologies.

Qualitative Info

N/A

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Yes, but only one such organisation.

 

Qualitative Info

RASMUS Association (previously RASMUS Network against Racism and Xenophobia) opposes racism and xenophobia and promotes multiculturality and human rights. RASMUS was registered as an association on 1.7.2011.

The association has no staff members, and is currently run on voluntary basis due to lack of funding for its activities

External Url http://www.rasmus.fi/index?l=3

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Yes, but only one such organisation.

Qualitative Info

RASMUS Association (previously RASMUS Network against Racism and Xenophobia) opposes racism and xenophobia and promotes multiculturality and human rights. RASMUS was registered as an association on 1.7.2011. Previously it operated as a network for people opposing racism and xenophobia.

The association has no staff members, and is currently run on voluntary basis due to lack of funding for its activities.

External Url http://www.rasmus.fi/index?l=3

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No.

Qualitative Info

N/A

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Yes, organisations representing minorities and migrants are involved in these processes mainly through their position in different government appointed advisory bords or as members of a project steering group.

Qualitative Info

The practice regarding law drafting is that there is at least one public consultation round before the final draft law. This allows NGOs to provide their views on the proposed law. In addition, the working group preparing the draft law oftentimes invites representatives of NGOs for expert hearings. Furthermore, regarding anti-racist and anti-discrimination policies, migrant and minority NGOs are typically represented in the steering groups for those policies.

 

Minority and migrant NGOs are also represented in government appointed advisory boards, which, in turn, have role in consultation, development, implementation of anti-racist and anti-discrimination law and/or policies.

 

The most significant advisory boards are: Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations (ETNO), Advisory Board for Minority Issues (VÄNE), Advisory Board for Roma Affairs (RONK), Advisory Board for International Human Rights Issues (IONK).

External Url www.intermin.fi/intermin/home.nsf/pages/A6DAD54E3A9379A2C22573B50030FDAA?opendocument / www.ofm.fi/intermin/vvt/home.nsf/pages/5C8E65B085FA04BAC22573A20031AA43?opendocument / www.stm.fi/stm/neuvottelukunnat/ronk/etusivu

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No.

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N/A

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Yes.

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The police training includes training on how to identify racially motivated offences and how to mark such incedents in the report of an offence.

 

No independet assessment of the training's effectiveness exists. 

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No.

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N/A

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No, there is no legal definitiion or sanctioning of ethnic profiling.

Qualitative Info

No official regulations exist on ethnic profiling.

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No, there is no evidence of ethnic profiling.

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N/A

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No, there is no evidence of this.

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N/A

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No, there are no evidence of these issues.

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N/A

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No, there is no evidence of this.

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N/A

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No, there is no evidence of this.

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N/A

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No.

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There is no evidence on migrants/minorities facing disporportionate problems in accessing justice in Finland.

 

However, the situation is better for those groups of people who can turn to the Office of the Ombudsman for Minorities for assistance than for members of sexual minorities and disabled people who do not have their own ombudsman institution.

 

There is no evidence that the legal aid system would be biased towards minorities/migrants.

 

The criminal justice system does not provide such disaggegated data that would allow an analysis of differential sentencing.

 

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No, there is no evidence of this.

Qualitative Info

N/A

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No, there is no evidence of such activities.

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N/A

 

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Yes, to a limited extent.

Qualitative Info

There are three employees' trade union confederations in Finland: The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) represents 21 affiliated trade unions and has altogether over a million members. Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees  STTK represents 20 affiliated trade unions and has  614 000 members. The Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland AKAVA represents 34 trade unions and has 553 000 members. 

 

All employees' trade union confiderations provide information on the rules and regulations cgoverning working life in Finland and of membership in a trade union, its importance and benefits, in different languages. STTK provides information only in English, Finnish and Swedish, but the other two also in Estonian, Russian, French and Spanish. In addition, SAK provides the information also in German and Polish.

 

No exemplary cases to report.

 

External Url http://www.sak.fi/english/whatsnew.jsp?location1=1&sl2=3&lang=en&id=31726

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No significant levels of segregation, but evidence of increased ethnic segregation in Helsinki Metropolitan Area..

Qualitative Info

There is a scarcity of data regarding secregation levels in FInnish cities. Helsinki is the only city collecting the data.

In 1 January 2011, the highest concentration of migrants was in Eastern Helsinki. Altogether 17 per cent of the population in Eastern Helsinki spoke other than Finnish, Swedish or Sámi as a native tongue. The second highest concentration of migrants was in North-Eastern Helsinki, where 11 per cent of the population spoke other than FInnish, Swedish or Sámi as a native tongue. In all other regions of Helsinki, the concentration level was below ten per cent.

External Url http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/julkaisut/pdf/11_12_15_Tilastoja_41_Ranto.pdf

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Data not available.

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N/A

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Data not available.

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Data protection legislation prohibits the registration of sensitive personal data. Personal Data Act (Section 11) provides that personal data is deemed to be sensitive, if they inter alia relate or are intended to relate to: a) race or ethnic origin; b) the social, political or religious affiliation or trade-union membership of a person; c) the state of health, illness or handicap of a person or the treatment or other comparable measures directed at the person; d) the sexual preferences or sex life of a person.

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Data not available.

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N/A

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Yes.

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Roma from other EU member states exercising their right to move and reside freely in another member state for up to three months are as a rule not provided housing by the munifipal authorities in Finland. Only in acute cases and when minors are invoved temporary emergency accommodation may be arranged.

 

A report on homelessness published by the Housing Finance and Development Centre discloses that homelessness among immigrants has increased although the total number of homeless has reduced significantly in 2000-2010. In 2010, about 9 per cent of single homeless persons were immigrants, while over 40 per cent of all homeless families were immigrants

External Url www.hs.fi/english/article/Helsinki+politicians+debate+issue+of+housing+for+Roma+beggars/1135266751402 / www.ara.fi/download.asp?contentid=24627&lan=fi

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No.

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The school network is regionally extensive and schools do not select their pupils. Every  pupil is entitled to attend the school of his/her own school district.

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No.

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N/A

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No.

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N/A

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There is an absence of members of target groups as media professionals.

Qualitative Info

There are approximately 100 media professionals in Finland with an immigrant background. Most of them work as freelancers. Less than one percent of the members in Finland's Union of Journalists are migrants, with the biggest groups being Swedish, British, German and American citizens.

 

According to Finland's Union of Journalists, most journalists with an immigrant background cannot join the union due to employment requirements for members. A working group of Finland's Union of Journalists promotes immigrant equality in media and has a webpage for journalists with a migrant background.

External Url http://www.journalistiliitto.fi/en/

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No data available on the frequency of hate speech incidents in media.

Qualitative Info

One is the case of Mr Olavi Mäenpää, a long-term city councillor of Turku. In 2007, Mr Mäenpää was a candidate in the parliamentary elections, and in this role appeared in an election debate on television. During the debate, Mr Mäenpää made slanderous comments on people with African, Middle Eastern and Roma backgrounds. Based on his statements on television, he was prosecuted and found guilty of incitement to ethnic or racial hatred. He was sentenced to a fine, and the verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeal. (Helsinki District Court R08/10541 and Helsinki Court of Appeals R09/1218)

 

In 2010, Mr James Hirvisaari, current Member of Parliament, was prosecuted for incitement to ethnic or racial hatred based on a text he had written for the on-line magazine Uusi Suomi. Mr Hirvisaari was accused of slanderous comments about Muslims. The charges were dismissed in district court, but upheld in the Court of Appeal. (Päijät-Häme District Court R10/1554 and Kouvola Court of Appeals R10/1164)

 

Another example is that of the television program titled Manne-tv/Romano-tv. It was a television program ran by the National Broadcasting Company in 2007. The program was categorized as a comedy show, and several of its makers were Roma.  In 2008, a complaint about the show was made to the National Discrimination Tribunal of Finland, on the basis that the show was harassment towards the Roma. The National Discrimination Tribunal found the National Broadcasting Company not guilty of harassment as defined in the Non-Discrimination Act (Dnro 2193/66/2007). In 2009, the decision of the Tribunal was appealed, but the Helsinki Administrative Court dismissed the complaint (Helsinki Administrative Court 06445/08/1205). A further complaint was made to the Supreme Administrative Court, which dismissed the complaint in 2011 (Supreme Administrative Court 3870/1/09)..

External Url http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kho/vuosikirjat/2011/201100588?search[type]=pika&search[pika]=Manne%20TV

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Yes, sporadic incidents are reported.

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The Disciplinary Board of the Football Association of Finland fined a football team 200 euro for events that took place on 7.6.2011. During the match, supporters of the home team, Ilves-Kissat, shouted racist remarks to the team members of TUTO with African backgrounds. During matches, the home team's community service officers are responsible for security, but they did not intervene in the events.

 

In another incident, in TPS - FC Lahti match on 23.10.2010, the Disciplinary Board of the Football Association of Finland fined FC Lahti 500 euro for racist shouts made by the team's supporters. The FC Lahti supporters had made monkey-chants whenever the TPS team member with a foreign background had possession of the ball.

 

The Disciplinary Board of the Football Association of Finland banned Gert Remmel, the coach of HIFK soccer team, from participating in four matches for events that took place on 9.5.2009 during a HIFK - PK Keski-Uusimaa match. Mr Remmel had referred to a member of the opposite team with an African background as a 'monkey'. The case was later taken by Mr Remmel to the Sports Justice Committee, which upheld the decision of the Disciplinary Board.

External Url http://www.palloliitto.fi/viestinta/?num=189170 / http://www.palloliitto.fi/viestinta/?num=176285 / http://www.urheiluoikeudenyhdistys.fi/oikeusturvalautakunta/2009_paatokset/15_2009_remmel_peli-ja_toimitsi/

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Yes.

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According to the 2012 Sanctions Directives of the Football Association of Finland, if a player is found guilty of racist behavior on the field, outside it or fails to intervene when witnessing racist behavior, he/she is subject to sanctions by the Disciplinary Board of the Football Association of Finland.

 

The Finnish Sports Federation appoints a Sports Justice Committee every four years. The Committee is a unofficial and independent body which passes judgments on sanctions and decisions within the field of sports in Finland. All member organizations of the Finnish Sports Federation are bound to its decisions.

External Url http://www.palloliitto.fi/kilpailu/saannot_ja_maaraykset/rangaistusmaaraykset/

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