On this page we provide dossiers with background material on various topics in the field of equal treatment and non-discrimination.

Measures, means and interventions for tackling cases of discrimination

• Testing procedures in order to prove discrimination. (published in November 2010)

• Collection of equality and participation data (published in April 2016)

• Legal support from organisations (published in October 2016)

• Public sector equality duties (published in July 2017)

• Proposals for strengthening of the Anti-discrimination Law (published in September 2017)

• Positive measures (published in June 2023)

Types of discrimination

• Equal pay for women and men in the same or comparable occupations (published in September 2011)

• Religious discrimination against people unaffiliated with any religion or affiliated with a non-Christian religion (published in August 2014)

• Discrimination against people with chronic diseases (published in April 2016)

• Discrimination in access to clubs (published in August 2016)

• Discrimination against Sinti and Roma communities (published in October 2022)

• Associated Discrimination (published in July 2022)

Criminal law and discrimination

• Hate crime and its underlying legal conditions (published in May 2013)

Institutional forms of racism

• Ethnic Profiling as a type of discrimination (published in December 2012)

• Police investigation of racially motivated crimes in Great Britain (published in October 2012)

• Institutional racism (published in June 2016)