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Ethnic Profiling: A Rising Challenge for European Human Rights Law

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De Schutter, Olivier [UCL] Ringelheim, Julie [UCL]

Ethnic profiling, defined as the use of racial, ethnic or religious background as a determining criterion for the adoption of law enforcement decisions, has been rising significantly in Europe, in particular in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. This article examines whether European human rights law is well equipped to deal with this challenge, and if not, how it should be reformed. Against the widely held assumption that personal data protection legislation is insufficiently protective of ‘sensitive’ data relating to race or ethnicity, it explains instead why combating ethnic profiling has been made more difficult, rather than less, by an overly protective reading of the requirements of data protection laws. It then discusses the additional measures that European states could take to address more effectively the human rights concerns prompted by the development of ethnic profiling.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2008
Language Anglais
Journal information "The Modern Law Review" - Vol. 71, no. 3, p. 358-384 (2008)
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (Chichester)
issn 0026-7961
e-issn 1468-2230
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - DRT/INT - Département de droit international Charles De Visscher
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Bibliographic reference De Schutter, Olivier ; Ringelheim, Julie. Ethnic Profiling: A Rising Challenge for European Human Rights Law. In: The Modern Law Review, Vol. 71, no. 3, p. 358-384 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/95486