Hearing on Afrophobia in the EU | European Parliament
MEPs Jean-Jacob Bicep, Jean Lambert and Philippe Lamberts (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance) organised a European Hearing on Afrophobia, in collaboration with the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR) on 20th February 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels. This event, which gathered MEPs, EU officials, civil society organisations, artists, and academics, aimed at providing evidence on the existence of a specific form of racism,known as Afrophobia, that specifically targets Black people in Europe.
The main objective of this event was to raise awareness and concern about how People of African Descent (PAD) and Black Europeans (BE) are specifically affected by racial discrimination and stereotypes and to emphasize the urgency with which this specific form of racism must be recognized and tackled politically in order to really make a change in the lives of the 7 to 12 million PAD/BE residing in the EU.