ECRI Report on Albania (fourth monitoring cycle)

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) was established by the Council of Europe as an independent human rights monitoring body specialised in racism and intolerance. It does country-by-country monitoring work and analyses the situation in each member State.

The report covers developments in criminal law (hate-crimes), functioning of the judicial system, the Ombudsman and the State Committee for Minorities, the situation of Roma, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants as well as the Code of Ethics for audiovisual media.

There are areas of concern as well: there is no law banning discrimination or examples of decision of the Constitutional Court, there is no body with the responsibility for combating racial discrimination, restrictive nature of the electoral law, and the poverty and discrimination faced by Roma – including the discrimination faced by Roma children in education.