The 2025 reissue updates a tool launched in 2024 to make it easier to report incidents of racism and xenophobia. Available in Spanish and Catalan, it features a new visual design with original illustrations by Rocio Montoya Doblas.
What we are presenting today is a reprint of the Study-Guide to Facilitate the Reporting of Acts Violating the Right to Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination on Racist and/or Xenophobic Grounds, a tool launched in 2024 to provide legal information and practical resources to individuals and organisations facing situations of racial discrimination.
Produced by La Fragua Projects, the Guide is part of the Racial Justice & Empowerment project and combines analysis, reflection and practical guidance to help tackle a reality that is as persistent as it is overlooked: the under-reporting of incidents of racism and discrimination.
A tool that continues to grow
The new edition remains true to the aim with which the publication was first launched: to help people affected by discrimination to better understand their rights and the mechanisms available to defend them. At the same time, it updates the content, reviews the resources and builds on a tool that had already proved its worth in its first edition.
The publication addresses issues relating to structural racism, under-reporting and institutional responses to discrimination, whilst providing practical information on administrative, judicial and social channels for reporting rights violations.
The guide pays particular attention to everyday areas where discrimination continues to occur frequently, such as employment, housing, education, healthcare, social services, public spaces and hate crime.
A publishing venture that combines art with a unique perspective
One of the most notable features of this reprint is the inclusion of the original illustrations by Rocio Montoya Doblas, a professional Romani illustrator whose artwork complements and enhances the content of the publication.
The illustrations lend the work its own distinctive character and help to make the content – which, in many cases, relates to legal and administrative matters – more accessible. The visual approach transforms the document into a tool that engages with different forms of expression and seeks to reach a diverse audience without compromising on rigour.
This new edition also features a new layout designed by Rocio Montoya Doblas and Iñaki Vázquez Arencón, further enhancing the publication’s polished and accessible nature.
Collective knowledge for the defence of rights
The publication has been coordinated by Iñaki Vázquez Arencón and features contributions from Pastora Filigrana García and Francisco Vargas Porras, members of the Roma Professional Network set up by the organisation.
From an anti-racist and human rights perspective, the Study-Guide highlights some of the factors that continue to make it difficult to report instances of discrimination: a lack of awareness of existing procedures, a lack of trust in institutions, and the normalisation of experiences of discrimination that form part of the everyday lives of many racialised people.
A tool serving communities
Reissuing and updating this publication reaffirms our commitment to ensuring access to rights, generating useful knowledge and strengthening our capacity to respond to racism and xenophobia.
With this new edition, the RJE Study Guide continues along the path it set out on in 2024 and reinforces its aim of being a practical tool at the service of individuals, communities and organisations that work every day towards a fairer, more diverse society, free from discrimination.
Source: La Fragua Projects
Illustrations: Rocio Montoya
Spanish version
Catalan version