Petition gegen verdachtsunabhängige Personenkontrollen gestartet
Petition gegen verdachtsunabhängige Personenkontrollen gestartet
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PETITION: Stop Racial Profiling – We need 2000 signatures per day: DID YOU
SIGN ALREADY?!
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Please sign the petition and support our efforts:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2012/_11/_07/Petition_37656.nc.html
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The Petition to Stop Racial Profiling was launched at the German
Bundestag! It is online now. In order for Parliament to put the issue on
the agenda, 50,000 signatures are needed. Please sign and share this
petition in order to support the petitioners in this legal action to
uphold human rights. Homepage with information and the link to get on the
petition-platform
Mbolo Yufanyi, The VOICE Refugee Forum, Berlin
Stop Racial Profiling: We, the petitioners, are calling on the German
Bundestag and the Federal Government
Text of the petition
* What, in concrete terms, do you wish to achieve with your petition?
We, the petitioners, are calling on the German Bundestag and the Federal
Government:
To adopt and permanently and sustainably enforce anti-racism trainings
that strengthen the awareness of racial/ethnic profiling in the regional
police and the federal police forces, thus ensuring that the police carry
out their constitutional duties without regard to national origin or skin
color of an individual, as is provided by article 3 of the Basic Law
(German constitution). Both basic police training as well as continued
education of officers must respond to this challenge adequately.
To institute an amendment to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) in §
3 AGG in order to recognize racial/ ethnic profiling as an act of
discrimination, which is illegal.
To prohibit identity checks so called controls without suspicion.
These identity checks rest on subjective judgment of officers, who tend to
select people based on ascribed „ethnic“ affiliation or „skin color
without any other reason at hand and hence must lead to racial/ ethnic
profiling.
To create fully transparent administrative structures for reporting
misconduct of police officers in incidents that may be ethnically
motivated. These events need to be analyzed and processed by an
independent and competent review body. A nationwide statistic would have
to be made in this regard.
Explanation *What is the reason for your petition?
Racial/ ethnic profiling is a form of institutionalized racism and entails
the discriminatory use of personal attributes (such as skin color, ethnic
or religious affiliation, national origin or language) as a basis for
identity checks and searches without a concrete warrant by the police.
While the judicial issue remains unsolved in the European context, the US
have achieved the broad consensus that racial/ethnic profiling is
inadmissible for the conduct of police measures.
Black People and People of Color (PoC) in Germany regularly become targets
of racial/ethnic profiling by the police in trains, train stations as well
as airports and other public places. Through these checks they are
publically marked as suspects, at the same time there are suspected to be
illegalized immigrants.
In December 2010, a black German traveling from Koblenz to Frankfurt was
asked to identify himself as part of a control without of suspicion by
the Federal Police. Since he had witnessed more than once that blacks and
people of color were controlled for no reason, while other passengers did
not have to identify themselves, he refused to present his papers and was
then searched and arrested. A suit directed against such action before the
Administrative Court of Koblenz was dismissed. In its decision the court
deemed these kinds of stop and searches necessary stating skin color was
a reasonable
criteria and part of legitimate police work based on the border patrols
experience.
A number of associations, organizations and individuals who work for the
equal rights and treatment of people were shocked by the verdict, as it
legitimized categorization based on appearance by the police.
These types of patrols create discriminating conditions for people with
supposedly non-German appearance. It also allows Federal Police officers
an expanded scope of action that justifies racist and discriminatory
mindsets and practices.
International and European bodies such as the UN Human Rights Committee,
the European Court of Human Rights and the European Agency for Fundamental
Rights have stated likewise that identity checks and identity findings
that are based solely or largely on criteria such as assumed „ethnic
affiliation or „skin color“ of a person violate against the prohibition
of racial discrimination.
The UN Human Rights Committee declared that racial/ethnic profiling defies
human rights2.
Also international and European bodies like the UN Human Rights Committee4
and the European Union Agency for Human Rights5 have stated that identity
checks that solely or majorly are based on criteria like ascribed ethnic
affiliation or skin color of a person violate the prohibition of racist
discrimination.
The German Government signed the final statement of the 3rd World
Conference in Durban, where all signing states agreed to:
…to design, implement and enforce effective measures to eliminate the
phenomenon popularly known as racial profiling and
comprising the practice of police and other law enforcement officers
relying, to any degree, on race, colour, descent or national or
ethnic origin as the basis for subjecting persons to investigatory
activities or for determining whether an individual is engaged in
criminal activity6 The Schengen border codex states regarding border
controls that member states of the European Union have to honor human
rights standards while conducting such checks. Hence, racist
discrimination is explicitly forbidden.
Please sign the petition and support our efforts:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2012/_11/_07/Petition_37656.nc.html
4 http://www.bug-ev.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Lecraft_v_Spain_Human_Rights…
5 http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/1133-Guide-ethnic-p…
6 Final statement world conference Durban 2001, action program, page 27, §72.
Petition gegen Racial Profiling eingereicht – Willkürlich unter Verdacht
(in German): http://www.stoppt-racial-profiling.de/
Racial Profiling ermöglicht der Polizei, Menschen nur aufgrund von
Äußerlichkeiten wie der Hautfarbe zu kontrollieren und gegebenenfalls auch
zu durchsuchen und abzuführen.
Seit dem 20. November ist es für vier Wochen möglich, unsere Petition
gegen die diskriminierende Behandlung durch die Bundespolizei zu
unterschreiben. Wenn wir die Grenze von 50.000 Unterschriften erreichen,
können wir unser Anliegen dem Bundestag persönlich vortragen.
Bitte unterstützt unsere Initiative für die Gleichstellung aller Menschen
in Deutschland!
Hier geht es zur Petition bei Bundestag.de:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2012/_11/_07/Petition_37656.nc.html“