Registration details for the different branches of the Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Mrap) can be found in the Journal Officiel.
The Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Mrap) was created in secrecy in 1949 by former members of the Résistance and deportees. It was initially called the Mouvement contre le racisme, antisémitisme et pour la paix, but changed its name in 1977. Since its creation, it has worked to fight against all forms of racism, to promote friendship between people and to fight for equal rights. Historically, Mrap has engaged in numerous different causes, including the following key themes:
- Against anti-Semitism: following the Second World War, Mrap fought against the re-emergence of anti-Semitic discourses, and notably against the production of anti-Semitic presses and publications by calling for an extension of existing laws protecting against the spread of racist ideas. Its political lobbying in this domain would eventually lead to the creation of a new law against racism, the loi Pleven (1972) that would eventually be completed by the loi Gayssot (1990). Mrap's fight against anti-Semitism continues to this day
- Against apartheid in South Africa: Mrap took at a stance against apartheid by publically condemning the Front National in its publication Droit et Liberté, and organised demonstrations against the Springboks' visit to France in 1974
- Against racial segregation and for minority rights in the US: Mrap has fought against anti-black racism in the US and defended the journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black Panthers, after he was sentenced to death for the killing of a police officer, which was finally revealed to be a juridicial error
- Against colonialism and its consequences in terms of racial discrimination
- Against racism towards traveller and Roma communities, as well as migrant communities, and for the regularisation of those without identity papers and the closure of detention centres
- For the creation and extension of laws relating to racial discrimination: Mrap was the impetus behind the creation of the law of 1st July 1972 that made racism a crime rather than an opinion.
The Congress of Mrap met in Bobigny on 31st March and 1st April 2012 and reaffirmed the following:
- The universality of the fight against racism
- The importance of the fight for equal rights in the context of state xenophobia and the racialisation of society
- The importance of peace and the right of peoples to decide freely their future
- The need to strengthen their actions faced with one of the most significant increases in the radicalisation of racism since the 1940s.
Mrap's former publication was called Droit et Liberté (1948-87) and is available through its digital archives.
Since 1980, it has published a magazine called Différences (1980-2011).
It's website also holds archives relating specifically to slavery: Dossier thématique: l'esclavage