TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919Criminal code provides for the criminal responsibility for thediscrimination on the basis of ethnic group, race, sex, origin, religionor any other belonging (Article No. 169), for the provocation ofhatred (Article No. 170) and for the prohibition from the performingof religious rituals (Article No. 171).The Articles 214(12) and 214(13) of The Code of AdministrativeOffences provides for the responsibility for the production,distribution or public demonstration of material which propagatesnational, racial or religious discord as well as establishing andparticipating in the organizations which propagates ethnic, racial andreligious discord.DiscriminazionePractice of denying subjects or communities rights or access toresources, for ethnic, linguistic, religious or cultural reasons. Whilenot being as strong, the concept of discrimination is near to that ofxenophobia which should be referred to, to learn of the negativeconsequences for the people to whom it is directed.Reasons for the phenomena of discrimination include a series offactors that go from biographic and social to those of a structuralnature and of a legal nature. These factors are not isolated, but oftenreact together to cause a cumulative effect in respect to the socialdisadvantages suffered. They are strictly tied to the process of socialstratification and, because they come into daily life and are thereforetaken for granted, they are all the more difficult to identify, preventand oppose.A) The factors of a biographic and social nature. Included in thefactors of a biographic and social nature are the explanations thatFinal report 169