Back Council of Europe anti-racism Commission to prepare report on the Netherlands

(from left to right) Maria Daniella Marouda and Cristian Jura, ECRI Rapporteurs at a regional anti-discrimination service, in Rotterdam.

(from left to right) Maria Daniella Marouda and Cristian Jura, ECRI Rapporteurs at a regional anti-discrimination service, in Rotterdam.

A delegation of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) visited the Netherlands from 4 to 8 November 2024 as the first step in the preparation of a monitoring report. The visit was preceded by online meetings on 29 and 31 October 2024. During the visit, ECRI’s delegation gathered information on effective equality and access to rights, hate speech and hate-motivated violence, and integration and inclusion.

The delegation held meetings with representatives of the government and other competent authorities, the Parliament, the equality bodies, other independent bodies, civil society organisations, professional associations, international organisations, the media, independent experts, researchers and groups of concern to ECRI. The delegation also travelled to Rotterdam, where it met with representatives of the local authorities, local police and prosecution services, as well as with representatives of RADAR, a regional anti-discrimination service. Furthermore, the delegation visited a secondary school where it talked to teachers. Discussions were also held with representatives of civil society active in areas of relevance to ECRI.

Following this visit, ECRI will adopt a report in which it will make a new set of recommendations on measures to be taken by the authorities to address racism and intolerance in the country. The implementation of two priority recommendations will be reviewed in two years’ time after the publication of the report as part of ECRI’s interim follow-up procedure.

In its 2019 report, among other recommendations, ECRI recommended that the authorities adopt new legislation on legal gender recognition in line with the Council of Europe standards.

It also recommended that the authorities take action to prevent and combat racial profiling by law enforcement officials, such as defining and describing in detail the conditions under which stop and search measures are permitted, systematically collecting relevant data, testing the use of stop and search forms and addressing racial profiling in initial and further training.

For more information on previous ECRI reports on the Netherlands, please visit ECRI’s country monitoring page.

Strasbourg 13 November 2024
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