Several associations and groups have denounced the “lack of representativeness, independence and transparency” of the Portuguese Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination (CICDR), stressing that the government’s recent appointments “reinforce these concerns”. In a statement, 36 associations and collectives, including SOS Racismo and Climáximo, stress that the composition of the CICDR following the government’s recent appointments “includes only five representatives of racialised communities subject to discrimination, with profiles centred on a perspective of assistance and equivocal in the face of the relations of oppression and supremacism that permeate the practices of the bodies and associations they led (…) This choice does not reflect a structured and inclusive approach to tackling racism as a systemic problem and jeopardises their ability to respond,” they denounced in a statement sent to Lusa.
Anti-racism body lacks diversity, independence, transparency, say activists
Photo: SOS Racismo
