Posts Tagged “racism”

• Racial Profiling in Spain: Still Going Strong?

  April 1, 2010 | by Rachel Aicher

  Rosalind Williams, who spoke recently at the Open Society Institute on her successful racial profiling case against Spain, was stopped by police again on her way back home from the United States.

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  Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice

  Topics: ethnic profiling, Rachel Aicher, racism, Rosalind Williams, Spain
  

• Texas Tough: An Interview with Robert Perkinson

  March 31, 2010 | by Adam Culbreath

  A Soros Justice Fellow talks about his new book on "Texas-style" incarceration, based on hard labor, corporal punishment, and racial debasement. Criminal justice, he argues, should be the civil rights arena of the 21st century.

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  Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States

  Topics: Adam Culbreath, overincarceration, prisons, racism, Robert Perkinson, Texas
  

• Three Strikes and You're Out

  March 18, 2010 | by James A. Goldston

  Will Europe’s governments heed a recent court ruling and halt segregated education for Roma and other ethnic minorities?

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  Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Rights & Justice

  Topics: Croatia, dh and others v. Czech Republic, discrimination, EU, European Court of Human Rights, James A. Goldston, racism, Roma, school segregation, segregation