Discrimination persists, according to the latest report of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights, published Monday July 18, in particular vis-à-vis the Jews and the Roma.
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The French say they are less and less racist, the tolerance index to the other continues to progress. And yet, the balance sheet is “alarming”, according to the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH). In its annual report on the fight against racism, anti -Semitism and xenophobia, published Monday July 18, the institution points to the “persistence of discriminatory phenomena” due to the real or supposed origin, the religion or the color of skin. “Certain racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic prejudices” remain “lively and, above all, their expression is renewed, is diversified, even intensifies according to the context”, underline the authors, who formulate fifty-five recommendations.
While France celebrates this year the 50th anniversary of Law of 1 er July 1972 , called “Pleven law”, which created the specific crimes of “insult and [of] defamation of a racist nature” as well as “Provocation to discrimination, hatred or racial violence”, and the 51 years of the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, the CNCDH notes that “stigmatizing speeches racists and xenophobes have not disappeared “. In question, in particular, the health crisis, which allowed “anti -Semitic conspiracy theories” to deploy, and the presidential campaign, “marked by the obsessive return of migratory and security themes”.
Despite this context, the longitudinal index for the acceptance of minorities, varying from 0 (absolute intolerance) to 100 (absolute tolerance), the gear instrument of the report, does not indicate an intolerance thrust. It is even the opposite, he has never reached such a high level: it is now 68, an increase of 2 points compared to 2019 and 3 points compared to the peaks of 2017 and 2009.
“opening record”
The authors evoke “an opening record”. “From December [2021], the fifth wave of the COVVI-19 epidemic, followed, in February, of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and more generally the context of massive concerns about the question of power Purchase have put these identity issues in the background (…). These elements can explain the positive developments noted in the 2022 wave of the CNCDH barometer “, advance the authors.
In parallel, the share of the French who consider themselves racist themselves continues to decrease for twenty years to reach this year a historically low level: 15 % of respondents say they are rather racist (3 %) or a little racist ( 12 %). Percentages down 3 points compared to 2019. In 2000, 43 % of French people questioned said they were rather or a little racist.
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