MADRID, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Racial and ethnic discrimination in Spain has worsened in the past few years, with a notable drop in access to housing, the Equality Ministry said in its 2020 report on Monday. It also highlighted growing racism in the education sphere. Almost one in three Black or ethnic minority respondents said they had experienced discrimination while house-hunting, starting with real estate and housing agencies and extending to locals and individual landlords. A United Nations expert said last year that Spain’s discriminated-against communities suffer staggeringly high rates of disease, inequality, and poor access to education and housing. Religion-related discrimination also increased considerably, the report said, with North African and Indo-Pakistani communities hardest-hit as a result of growing stigmatisation, Islamophobia and being likened to terrorists, the report said.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 25, 2021 14:46 UTC