European Network Against Racism
Network of European anti-racism NGOs
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ENAR is funded by the Open Society Foundations, the European AI & Society Fund, and Porticus.
History
ENAR is an outcome of the 1997 European Year Against Racism. Between March and September 1998, more than 600 NGOs were involved in national and European round table consultations to discuss the viability of such a structure. The 1998 Constitutive Conference of the European Network Against Racism brought together more than 200 representatives of these organisations to draw up a common programme of action.
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Vision and mission
ENAR's vision aims at guaranteeing equality for all, and recognises the benefits of a diverse and racism-free Europe for European society and economy.
Its mission is to end structural racism in the European Union and to build structures, institutions and attitudes based on race equality and equal distribution of power, privileges and rights.
Areas of work
The following are some of the fields in which ENAR works:
- Racist crime and speech
- Employment
- Security and policing
- Equality data collection
- Migration and integration
- Specific forms of racism, including Afrophobia, Antigypsyism, Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Along with Equinox, ENAR has been denouncing the whiteness of the European institutions and argued for a greater representation or racialised communities in the policy discussions at the EU level.
Controversy
Links with the Muslim Brotherhood
ENAR has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood by MEP Frederique Ries, a claim also extended to its member organisation FEMYSO. Michaël Privot, ENAR's former director, publicly admitted he had joined and then left the Muslim Brotherhood. However, this has been contested by the Network as part of an 'architecture of defamatory attacks that our organisation has been increasingly subjected to for what they actually are: a coordinated far-right strategy to silence anti-racism voices, discredit civil society, and bury accountability under layers of racist innuendo'.
Members
ENAR members include a wide range of organisations, from grassroots to advocacy organisations, from information centres, to trade unions, to faith-based organisations.
Member countries
NGOs in the following countries form the coalition: