ECRI held its 94th plenary meeting in Strasbourg, which took place from 9 to 11 April 2024.

On 9 and 11 April, ECRI held two separate exchanges of views with:

-    Manuel Demougeot, Chair of the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM), and 

-    Barbara Reynolds, Chair of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD), with the participation of Marko Bošnjak, Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights, and  Vânia Costa Ramos, Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Momodou Malcolm Jallow, former General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on combating racism and intolerance, and former PACE Rapporteur on combating Afrophobia, or anti-Black racism, in Europe partly attended.

As part of its sixth country monitoring cycle, ECRI examined its preliminary draft reports on Andorra, Italy, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova and the United Kingdom, and adopted its final reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, San Marino and Serbia. 

ECRI also adopted its annual report on its activities for 2023.

In addition, ECRI held discussions on the basis of the activities of its working group on relations with civil society and equality bodies, which had recently organised meetings with the Co-Chairs of the Committee for Interreligious and Interconvictional Dialogue of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe and with representatives of Ukrainian civil society organisations active in areas falling within ECRI’s mandate.

In the course of its plenary meeting, ECRI also took note of the statement made by Clarence Lusane, observer in respect of the United States of America.
 

Exchange of views with Manuel Demougeot, Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM).