The Ombudsman transmitted to the UN allegations of racist raids in Spain.

Policy Response DateMay 7, 2012 Country: Spain General Type: Institutional discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Asylum seekers, Africans/black people Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Anti-discrimination

The Ombudsman  has included citizen complaints of police  on the street identifications  based on racial criteria.  The report sent to the Committee on Economic, Social and  Cultural Rights contains a  complement information  sent by the Government and  twenty NGOs and will serve  in this body to review the implementation in Spain of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

This question could be, therefore, one of the need to clarify when the Spanish delegation on Monday to undergo oral examination committee. For two days, must defend the report by the Government on the implementation of the Covenant and respond to demand from experts on the issues raised by NGOs and the Ombudsman in their respective jobs.

The text of the Ombudsman includes a number of cases analyzed in their annual reports for 2007-2010, as cited racist raids, for which reference "numerous complaints from citizens of foreign origin who have been arrested following identification checks systematically performed in different places of Madrid. "

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1421223/0/defensor-pueblo/onu/redadas-racistas-cie/