Federal Anti-discrimination Agency
Organisation name in original language
Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes
Category of human rights structure
Statutory human rights body
Country
Germany
Type(s) of body
Equality Body (EB)
Legal source(s)
- General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines GleichbehandlungsgesetzAntidiskriminierungsstelle - Gesetzliche Grundlagen), which implements the EU’s non-discrimination directives and sometimes goes beyond them
Human rights capacity support
Not applicableFunctions
- Oversight
- Collecting data on human rights violations
- Performing promotional activities
Specific mandates
- Equality body with a mandate on equal treatment
Structured cooperation with partners at national level
- The Independent Federal Commissioner for Anti-discrimination, who heads the Federal Anti-discrimination Agency, is ‘to be involved in all planned activities which affect his or her tasks. Such involvement is, as a general rule, to occur at an early stage. He or she may make suggestions to the federal government and submit statements.’ (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_agg/englisch_agg.html)
Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level
- The agency is a member of the European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet).
- The commissioner is a founding member of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Network of Anti-racism and Anti-discrimination Officials.
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