The widespread and discriminatory enforcement of “minor” offenses has major consequences for poor communities across Europe.
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26th April, 2024 | Lanna Hollo
Country Profile: France | Multiple fines disproportionately target poor, racialized communities
Country Profile: France | Multiple fines disproportionately target poor, racialized communities
Part of a pattern of discriminatory harassment by law enforcement, discriminatory and abusive fines for minor offenses are a rapidly growing problem in...
25th April, 2024 | Mitali Nagrecha
Members of “Minor Offenses, Major Punishment” Campaign submit testimony to UN on the mass fining of people from poor, racialized communities across Europe
Members of “Minor Offenses, Major Punishment” Campaign submit testimony to UN on the mass fining of people from poor, racialized communities across Europe
(RE)Claim/MCDS (France), Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Hungary), and Justice Collective (Germany) urge the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequa...
About us
Fine Justice is a project of RE(Claim) and Justice Collective.
RE(Claim)
(RE)Claim believes in the power of law to advance social and racial justice. We leverage legal tools in bold and creative ways to contribute to ending systemic discrimination. We work with grassroots groups, communities, organizations and movements, lifting up their voices and perspectives, to realize the principle of equality in practice. Our legal advocacy strategies bolster collective power building efforts of groups and communities most directly impacted by racism and discrimination and amplify the impacts of classic strategies such as legislative advocacy, public education, communication and grassroots organizing, increasing pressure for systemic change.
Justice Collective
Justice Collective is a Berlin-based organization that engages in activism, public education, and research on issues of policing and punishment. We seek to reveal and challenge the ways in which punishment targets people from racialized groups, people experiencing poverty and inequality, and those making a life for themselves in new places. Our goal is to end society’s reliance on policing, punishment, and prisons. We are co-founders of a coalition to end debtors’ prisons in Germany (Bündnis zur Abschaffung der Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe) and conduct court watching in Berlin’s criminal courts.