Summary
In Berlin on 30-31 January 2007, the European Commission launched the Year of Equal Opportunities for All, which “seeks to make people in the European Union more aware of their rights to equal treatment and a life free of discrimination.”
In this context, and in conjunction with Women’s Day on 8 March, the EMCDDA is paying specific attention to the issue of drug use among ethnic minority women in European countries, who are subject to three-fold discrimination: as drug users, as women, and as ethnic minorities.
Given the great variety of ethnic groups in Europe, low prevalence of women users, and the extremely hidden nature of drug use among ethnic minority women, this issue is relatively unacknowledged and undocumented.
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