Zurück A City Infrastructure to Combat All Forms of Discrimination

Concept

Barcelona City Council publishes an annual report on incidents of discrimination reported in the city. This covers diverse grounds of discrimination including: racial or ethnic origin; sexual orientation; disability; language; gender; socio-economic status; health; religion; ideology; and age.

The report identifies: who alleged discrimination in terms of such as their gender, age and legal status; the types of entities against whom discrimination was alleged; the geographical location, by neighbourhood, and the context, in the public or private sphere, of these incidents of discrimination; the grounds for discrimination identified; the specific rights that are alleged to have been infringed; the type of discrimination involved; and the responses made to the complaints.

This published diagnosis of discrimination makes the issue visible so that such behaviours or attitudes do not become normalised. It provides the data necessary for an adequate and appropriate focus on the issue in policy making. It builds trust between civil society organisations and the City Council, and creates space for joint strategy in combating discrimination to be discussed.

Foundation

The Barcelona Discrimination Observatory, established in 2018, has published this annual report since 2018. The observatory is a joint initiative of the Office for Non-Discrimination, and the Human Rights Resource Centre of the city council and of the Board of Organisations for Assistance to Victims of Discrimination, comprising over 18 civil society organisations that assist people alleging discrimination.

Progress

The methodology for the 2019 annual report included: analysis of data from the discrimination case load of nine civil society organisations and of the Office for Non-Discrimination; and focus groups to explore the issues arising from the data, including in this instance issues of under-reporting and intersectionality.

95% of the cases reported involved direct discrimination, and the analysis of under-reporting is largely focused on this type of discrimination. Systemic discrimination is increasingly coming onto the agenda. It has been adopted as its core topic for 2020 by the Barcelona Municipal Immigration Council, a consultative body for the city comprised of municipal political groups and migrant associations. It is expected this will lead to greater attention to this phenomenon in future years.

The report concludes by identifying the main challenges for 2020, with recommendations to be addressed by various public bodies and by the members of the Board of Organisations for Assistance to Victims of Discrimination.

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