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EurActiv (10 June 2020)

By Christina Goßner, translated by Daniel Eck

Last year, Germany’s Anti-Discrimination Agency received more than 3,500 complaints for discrimination incidents, of which cases of racial discrimination saw a marked increase. Experts are now calling for a modernisation of federal laws. EURACTIV Germany reports.

On Tuesday (9 June), the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS) presented an annual report for the second time since 2018 on the requests for advice it received on incidents of discrimination.

According to the report, in 2019, about one-third of all requests concerned discrimination based on ethnic origin, resulting in a 10% increase of cases of racial discrimination compared to the previous year.

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