Hi All,

I am interested to fight the racism especially on internet; do you know any Anti-Racism associations in Geneva?

Btw the Swiss Penal Code says about racism :

“Those who publicly incite hatred or discrimination against a person or group of persons because of their racial, ethnic or religious;

Those who publicly propagate an ideology aiming to disparage or denigrate systematically members of a particular race, ethnicity or religion;

Those who, for the same purpose, have organized or encouraged acts of propaganda or takes part;

Those who have publicly, in speech, writing, image, gesture, by assault or otherwise discriminated against or lowered in a way that undermines human dignity a person or group of persons because of their race, their ethnicity or their religion or who, for the same reason, deny, grossly minimize or seek to justify genocide or other crimes against humanity;

Those who having refused to a person or group of persons because of their racial, ethnic or religious, a service intended for public use,

shall be punished with imprisonment of three years or a fine.”

You can find more information on:

http://www.ekr.admin.ch/themen/00042/00054/index.html?lang=fr

In the future if you have faced to racism behaviour on internet, there are 2 alternatives actions:

- Register a discrimination complaint according to the article 261 bis of the Swiss Penal Code.

- Contact the Swiss Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control (CYCO) http://www.cybercrime.ch. This service is also responsible for matters of racism on the Internet. It shall, where appropriate, send the case to the criminal prosecution authorities.

And then the authorities will decide how to handle your case…

Many Thanks,

Felipe