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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
Racial Profiling Is Still An Ugly Reality, The UN Says
A United Nations rights panel has highlighted racial profiling against people of African descent in Germany.
"People of African descent in Germany suffer racial discrimination, Afrophobia and racial profiling in their daily lives, but their situation remains largely invisible to the wider society," the expert panel said at the end of its first official visit to the country.
The expert group will release a report with its findings and recommendations to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2017.
In fact, racial profiling in Germany is not just taking place against African people, but also against other migrants.
I'm one of them.
During the years I have lived in Germany, I have been profiled a couple of times by the police while all the European, white people around me were not.
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