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Testing for discrimination

Adapting the method used by US organizations on housing discrimination, the Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities (NEKI) uses a method of testing to collect evidence when there is an allegation of discrimination in order to challenge it in court.   Once the Bureau receives a complaint of discrimination, testers are sent out to the alleged place of discrimination. Testing typically involves sending out a Roma and a non-Roma person with similar characteristics and qualifications, with the only major difference between the individuals is ethnicity. The testers record their experiences on assignment forms immediately after the test, offering details of their experiences. The test coordinator (either the organization or the attorney) can then evaluate whether or not differential treatment has taken place.   The results of these tests are then used as evidence in discrimination court cases.

notebook: Testing for Discrimination

In this notebook we learn about how an organization in Hungary tests for and documents incidences of systematic descrimination 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.

notebook: Making the Global Local

In the human rights field there is often a gap between local human rights abuses and the international laws and treaties that are meant to prevent these abuses.  The League of Human Rights Advocates in Slovakia recruits members of a disenfranchised population and trains them to become human rights monitors.  These monitors watch for human rights abuses in their own locality and then translate international human rights laws and apply them to their local situations.
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