A/HRC/62/55/Add.1 establishment, by the Ministry of the Interior, of a working group, which includes civil society organizations, to develop recommendations to put a stop to racial profiling within law enforcement agencies. She encourages the working group to develop a national action plan to prevent, address and remedy racial profiling that includes actions focused on internal and external accountability, awareness-raising and training, community engagement to build and maintain trust with affected communities and collecting disaggregated data on racial profiling. 49. The Special Rapporteur also heard about the overpolicing, excessive use of force and surveillance by law enforcement officials of those from marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Given such reports, she welcomes the establishment of the Investigation and Complaints Office for Allegations of Police Ill-treatment. The office was set up in 2024 to take a more structured approach to investigating complaints of law enforcement misconduct. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the fact that this body has developed mechanisms to consult with civil society groups. She stresses the importance of effective mechanisms to ensure accountability and oversight in cases of police misconduct against marginalized racial and ethnic groups. She nevertheless noted concerns about the independence of the office, given its institutional location within the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, she noted that, while the complaints office works on issues that can disproportionately impact those from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, it does not have an explicit mandate to address racism. She strongly encourages Austria to ensure the independence and effectiveness of the Investigation and Complaints Office for Allegations of Police Ill-treatment and highlights the importance of ensuring that it is sufficiently sensitive to the racial dimensions of police misconduct. 50. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the information she received indicating that law enforcement officials are mandated to wear body cameras and that consideration has been given to related privacy concerns. Body cameras can play an important role in the monitoring and accountability of police conduct and can be useful in addressing racial profiling and the excessive use of force. The Special Rapporteur therefore encourages the consistent use of body cameras by all law enforcement officials in Austria. She also highlights the fact that body cameras have limitations and that their use should be implemented alongside broader measures to prevent, address and remedy police misconduct. 51. The Special Rapporteur also received concerning information regarding the presence of proponents of extremist ideologies, including neo-Nazi elements, within custodial settings in Austria. While comprehensive data are not publicly available, isolated cases, including incidents involving prison staff, suggest that manifestations of far-right ideologies occur within prisons. In such contexts, the presence of far-right extremist attitudes or networks may contribute to risks of racist violence, intimidation and unequal treatment within detention settings. The Special Rapporteur regrets the lack of disaggregated data on racist incidents, extremist affiliation and the experiences of detainees from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, which makes it difficult to fully assess the scale and nature of these risks. She stresses the importance of improved monitoring, data collection and targeted measures to address all forms of extremism, including far-right ideologies, within custodial environments. 4. Education 52. The Special Rapporteur received multiple reports of racism within Austrian schools affecting children of African descent and Jewish, Roma, Sinti and Muslim children. Manifestations of such racism include unequal treatment related to different elements of school life, such as grading and competitions, the inclusion of racist information in school curricula, racist bullying by students and inadequate responses from teachers and other school staff to such bullying. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur received specific information about the segregation and mistreatment of Roma and Sinti children in educational institutions. She is concerned that these manifestations of racism are not limited to isolated incidents but may reflect broader structural inequalities within the Austrian education system and broader society that disproportionately affect children from marginalized racial and ethnic groups. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the fact that the School Education Act explicitly obliges schools to uphold equal treatment, respect the dignity of all pupils and promote a respectful and discrimination-free school climate. She also commends the federal 13