Registration of complaints about discrimination in the Netherlands and in Germany

S. van Bon, W. Dinsbach, C. Lechner, M. Peucker

This report focuses on data concerning complaints about discrimination that people have filed. Complaints data can be generated by organisations that handle discrimination complaints, such as the police, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS), courts, equality bodies, ombudsmen or non-governmental organisations that provide services to victims of discrimination. This report outlines the anti-discrimination infrastructure for complaints registration of two EU Member States: the Netherlands and Germany. It includes data collection mechanisms that target various grounds of discrimination and that operate on a nation-wide or on a regional basis. The registration procedures of judicial bodies and other types of organisations that handle complaints about discrimination are described in detail for both Germany and the Netherlands. The existing structures for collecting, recording, analysing and reporting on discrimination data will be presented. Note: this report is written for wide audience. It is not specific targeted LGBTI people only.