Finland protects migrants from discrimination with anti-discrimination law which reaches best practice on definitions and concepts and fields of application (see box). Migrants are protected from public and private actors who use various forms of discrimination based on their ethnicity/race, religion/belief and nationality (see box). This protection extends to many relevant field of migrants' lives, such as employment and vocational training, education, social protection, social advantages and access to public housing and healthcare (see box). If Finland strengthened the legal standing and powers of its equality body and NGOs (specifically, legal entities with a legitimate interest in promoting equality), its score would improve on both equality policies and enforcement.
