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Rachel Neild

Senior Advisor

Rachel Neild is senior advisor on ethnic profiling and police reform with the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, Neild previously worked with the Washington Office on Latin America, the Andean Commission of Jurists, Peru, and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, Costa Rica.

Neild has also done consultancies on human rights and policing for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, USAID, and Rights and Democracy, among others.

Challenging Police Profiling in France
Lanna Hollo and Rachel Neild
April 11, 2012
blog BLOG  
Fifteen people have filed civil law suits against the French state for racial profiling—the first major legal action in France to address the longstanding police use of identity checks that target visible minorities.

Challenging Ethnic Profiling in Europe
OSI-New York
March 17, 2010
audio AUDIO
Rosalind Williams discusses her experience challenging racial profiling in Europe and the implications of her landmark UN Human Rights Committee case, along with Open Society Justice Initiative experts on ethnic profiling.

Rosalind Williams
audio AUDIO
Rosalind Williams is an African American artist and naturalized citizen of Spain. After experiencing racial profiling by police in Spain in 1992, Williams took her case to court, culminating in a landmark decision.

Ethnic Profiling Is Bad Policing: Q & A with Rachel Neild
Will Cohen
May 24, 2011
blog BLOG  
For several years, the Open Society Justice Initiative has been documenting profiling in Europe, showing it's an unfair and ineffectual way of fighting crime. Rachel Neild and colleagues are now taking the fight to the courts.

Austrian Radio Interviews Rachel Neild on Ethnic Profiling
April 30, 2009
audio AUDIO
Rachel Neild, senior legal advisor with the Open Society Justice Initiative, spoke with Austrian radio about ethnic profiling in that country.

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