Cyprus - 2012
Does nationality, citizenship serve as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services, employment and/or deprivation of economic and social rights?
- Code:
- RED4
- Key Area:
- Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination
| Short Answer |
Yes |
| Qualitative Info |
The nationality exemption of the Council Directives was transposed in the national laws. However the Equality Body has an enlarged mandate, going far beyond the minimum requirements of article 13 of the Racial Equality Directive. Thus the Combating of Racial and other forms of Discrimination (Commissioner) Law N. 42(I)/2001 which sets out the Equality Body's mandate covers nationality by implication, since it gives the Equality Body the power to investigate complaints on all grounds covered by conventions ratified by the Republic of Cyprus (Articles: 3(1)(a); 3(1)(b); 5(a)). Nationality is a protected ground in Protocol 12 to the ECHR, ratified by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Twelfth Protocol) (Ratification) Law N.13(III)/2002, which renders nationality as one of the grounds covered by the mandate of the Equality Body. There are several Equality Body decisions criticising nationality discrimination in access to goods and services, employment and access to economic and social rights. |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Muslims, Asylum seekers |
| Type (R/D) | Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Nationalism |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Education, Sport, Anti-discrimination, Daily life |
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