SOS Racismo /SOS Arrazakeria Gipuzkoa was formally founded in 1993  to fight all forms of discrimination and segregation based on skin  colour, ethnicity or cultural background. Whether this discrimination is on an individual, group or institutional level we demand tolerance, respect and understanding with equal rights for all. We see cultural  diversity in a positive light and defend the freedom of expression of each individual or group in our society. We strongly support all types of cultural exchanges and practices, which promote contact between local people, immigrants and minority groups.

There are branches of SOS Racismo throughout Spain and we make part of this Federation, which was established in 1995.

Programs and activities.

1. Awareness raising program. We promote the social, political and cultural inclusion of migrant people, avoiding culture as a tool of social exclusion; it promotes the equality of rights, the recognition of citizenship, the respect; it promotes best practices that facilitate relationship, exchange between native
people, migrants and ethnocultural minorities.

Projects:
• Organization of meetings, seminars, workshops and conferences.
• Participation in debates and round tables.
• Publication of the Mugak review.
• Participation in street actions
• Networking with others groups, associations and entities
• Anti-rumours network.

2. Training programmes and Documentation. The Centre of Studies and Documentation on Racism and Xenophobia – Mugak- was established in 1997 and is the core of this project. One of the working lines is the Diversity Media Watch that produces the Daily Review that is sent daily up to thousand of subscribers;
Report. This working line is based in making public those practices and regulations that suppose a violation of human rights. It also fights against ideas and different expressions of racism and xenophobia. The realization of the Annual Report on Racism and Xenophobia is one of the milestones of this program. Moreover, annually we realize the Parade against Racism and Xenophobia.

3. Assistance and advising program. It is aimed to support migrants in legal and administrative procedures. Migrant women and underage and unaccompanied minors are specifically taken in account and assisted.

4. Program of promotion of voluntary work.

5. Education program. One of the areas is the Antiracist Education:

• Photo exhibitions about: Refugees; Holocaust; Unaccompanied minors; representation of migrant people in Medias; relationships and solidarity between native and migrant people in the Basque Country; migrant women;
• Teacher’s edition.
• Talks and cine-forum.

Also we are part of different networks:
• UNITED for Intercultural Action
• PICUM.
• MIGREUROP

and we take part in different European projects.