The Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia (IDH) shows, together with the Open Society Justice Initiative, a pioneer report in Spain on police ethnic profiling identification. The report, whose full title is 'Police ethnic profiling identification in Spain: report on experiences and attitudes regarding police actions', will be announced today Thursday, 17 October, at 11:30 at the headquarters of the Ombudsman (C / Zurbano, 42, Madrid).
The document, prepared by researchers from the Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia and the University of Oxford, discusses the results of the survey conducted in April 2013 by the company Metroscopia. This is the first survey in comparing police experience between the Caucasian majority and the different ethnic and racial minorities in Spain.
The study, published in the series 'human rights' of the publisher Tirant lo Blanch and the Publications Service of the University of Valencia, with a foreword by Professor Javier de Lucas, answers, with scientific data, the following questions: Is there any discriminatory bias police checks, such as identifications, registrations or searches?, does the skin colour or ethnic appearance affect in such police actions?, are these police practices effective, regarding the discovery of illicit activities?, and do they have any impact on the police legitimacy and trust from the different groups in this institution?
In the presentation of report will intervene Jose Garcia Anon, from the Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia and co-author of the report; Mohamed Gerehou, a journalism student and a victim of discriminatory police checks; José Francisco Cano de la Vega, a spokesman for the Platform for Police Management of Diversity and Local Police Chief of Fuenlabrada; María Serrano Martín de Vidales, co-responsible for Institutional Relations and Internal Policy from Amnesty International - Spanish Section; and Cristina de la Serna, coordinator in Spain for Open Society Justice Initiative.
Created in 2005, and currently led by Professor Consuelo Ramón, the Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia has received from the Ministry of Education the Excellence Mention for its Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice PhD programme. The IDH obtained in 2008 an aid within the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme. The institute is part of a project in which twelve research groups from different Spanish universities collaborate, which is coordinated by the Institute for Human Rights Bartolome de las Casas of the University Carlos III in Madrid. The selected project is called 'El tiempo de los derechos' ('The age of rights') and its main researcher has been Professor Gregorio Peces-Barba. Consolider-Ingenio 2010 is the main funding source of the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 for high quality projects. It was the first time that a team of researchers from the legal field received this kind of aid, mainly aimed at scientific contexts away from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Last update: 17 de october de 2013 07:36.
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