Round Table “Preventing and combating racism and intolerance in Monaco”
Monaco, 25 April 2023 (9:00 - 17:00)
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Round Table of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and Monaco’s High Commissioner for the Protection of Rights, Liberties and for Mediation.
The aim of the event was to provide the participants with the opportunity to discuss the follow-up to the recommendations contained in ECRI’s monitoring report on Monaco, published in 2022.
The round table was divided into three sessions:
- ECRI’s main findings
- The equality body
- Combating hate speech
Opening statements was made by Isabelle Rosabrunetto, Director General of the Department of External Relations and cooperation of Monaco, Bertil Cottier, Vice-Chair of ECRI and Johan Friestedt, Executive Secretary of ECRI, and Marina Ceyssac, High Commissioner for the Protection of Rights, Liberties and for Mediation of Monaco. ECRI’s report on Monaco was presented by Kristina Pardalos and Bertil Cottier, ECRI members and co-Rapporteurs.
In addition to national and local officials, the round table brought together representatives of civil society organisations, as well as members of groups of concern to ECRI. This event aimed at contributing positively to the national debate on combating racial discrimination and intolerance in the country.
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In its 2022 report on Monaco, ECRI expressed concern about issues such as:
- pass legislation governing the fight against all forms of discrimination
- strengthen the High Commissioner’s powers, particularly with regard to inquiries
- enable the judicial authorities to tackle online hate speech more effectively
- eliminate any unjustified differences in treatment between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples
- include in domestic law a procedure for processing asylum claims in accordance with international law
- establish clear norms governing the right to family reunification and residence permits
- ratify the revised European Social Charter
- Agenda
- Conclusions by the Vice-Chair of ECRI (available in French only)
