Topic: Discrimination and Racial Justice

Life in Denmark has become increasingly difficult for the thousands of Muslim citizens and immigrants in the country. Many new policies ostracize Muslims—and they are illegal.

Kenya ushered in a national biometric ID system with little public input. Now, advocates are challenging the government in the courts to ensure inclusive policies and data privacy.

In Denmark, Open Society Justice Initiative partnered with local residents to stop mass evictions and save their homes under the country’s controversial and discriminatory “Ghetto Package.”

This video, produced by Rights International Spain and the Open Society Foundations, explores the lived realities of racialized individuals in Spain.

A recent judgement by Germany's top labor court is expected to end a decades old court battle over headscarf bans for teachers.

A new U.S. Department of Homeland Security biometric database is projected to contain information on hundreds of millions of people by 2022 and represents an alarming development to scale up the agency's surveillance and information-sharing ability.

A new guide shows how to build creative campaigns and community power to finally put an end to ethnic profiling by police in Europe.

Two French activists are demanding systematic action to address deep-rooted patterns of ethnic profiling in police stops.

This case may set an important precedent for standards for discrimination in Denmark.

A lawsuit against Bulgaria under the European Social Charter seeks to reinforce citizens’ protections in the future—by highlighting policy failures that left the country with the highest COVID-19 death rate in Europe.

Mohamad Wa Baile, a Swiss citizen, complained to the European Court of Human Rights that he had been subjected to a discriminatory stop by police in Switzerland. The court ruled in his favor, marking a step forward in the drive to eliminate racially-biased policing in Europe.