New racism awareness website puts Ireland on RED alert

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Incidents of xenophobia and discrimination in Ireland, are to be monitored on a new EU-funded website, www.red-network.eu.
 
The website is an initiative of the RED Network, an independent research network composed of research and civil society organisations in 17 EU member states.  The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is a member of the Network, and will be providing information and updates to the new site on the Irish context.
 
Fidèle Mutwarasibo, integration manager with the ICI, said the site will serve as a comprehensive information portal, allowing users to easily access statistics, reports and comparative data about racist incidents across the EU.
 
“Anyone can log on to this site and assess – at a glance – how migrants and minority communities are treated in various EU states,” said Mutwarasibo.  “In addition to providing up-to-date statistics and reports on incidents of racism, the site also contains information on positive initiatives and policy measures being adopted by governments in order to promote equality. In the Irish section, for example, there are reports on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and the Traveller Pride Awards, as well as articles about individual incidents of racism.”
 
Key features of the new site include a thesaurus section  where words and phrases associated with racism are explained and broken down into plain English and the RED Atlas, which gives a country-by-country breakdown of the situation in EU member states. 
 
In addition to Ireland, organisations from Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden are involved in the RED Network. The Network is led by the Institute for Rights, Equality and Diversity (i-RED) from Greece.  
 
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