Italy: Briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: 80th session, February 2012

Amnesty International is submitting the information in this document for consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee), in advance of its review of Italy’s 16th to 18th periodic reports, submitted under article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. This briefing focuses on some legal and policy developments which have had a discriminatory effect on Roma and migrants and which occurred since the Committee reviewed Italy’s periodic reports in 2008.

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