Who could have predicted that in 2003 when New Tactics Notebook “Testing for Discrimination: Identifying and Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses” (updated in 2007) was published, it will have later a direct impact on the first Roma discrimination case decided in the national courts in Lithuan
Laws against discrimination are often enacted only after a long struggle, but in many ways, the new law is just the first step toward equality. Will the law be put to the test, and how?
Today, March 21, is recognized as the International Day Against Racism. The date is historically significant. We have also recently seen in stark and tragic detail how discrimination can lead to violent conflict.
In the United States, it was fitting that on Tuesday, March 18, Senator Barack Obama made a speech addressing the question of racism that has been raised in the current US presidential campaign.
In this notebook we learn about how an organization in Hungary tests for and documents incidences of systematic discrimination against a disenfranchised population. When an instance of discrimination is reported, this organization will send out testers find out whether or not this discrimination was systematic and then document their findings.
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