Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) of Germany’s combined 23rd to 26th periodic reports under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (the Convention). In this briefing the organization outlines its concerns regarding Germany’s failures to address systemic racism, racial discrimination, and racist violence by state actors as well as lack of protection from racist discrimination and violence by non-state actors and the right to truth, justice and reparations. Despite progress made, the German state – at the federal, state, and municipal/local level – is failing in its commitment to meet its obligations under the Convention across all of these issue areas. It is not an exhaustive list of concerns.
