Police Attack Roma Community in Slovakia: Children and Elderly Injured
Budapest, Zborov 24 May 2017: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) have received video evidence of police officers attacking Roma at random in the street in Zborov, Slovakia. Police entered the Romani neighbourhood of Zborov on 16th April and began indiscriminately beating Roma, including children and elderly people.
Roma Tortured by Police in Belgrade After Reporting Stolen Car
Budapest, 16 May 2017: A Romani man and his wife have reported being abused in Belgrade during a police interrogation after reporting their car as stolen.
Police officers detained Jelena and Ivan for thirteen hours, threatening to imprison them, and telling them they had a car waiting to take their children to an orphanage. The officers aimed ...
ERRC Demands Justice for Kosovo Victims of Lead Poisoning
Budapest, 15 May 2017: Today, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) submitted over 10,000 signatures to the Secretary General of the United Nations calling for a full public apology, compensation and medical treatment for the Roma, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians suffering from lead poisoning in the UN administered camps at Mitrovica, Kosovo.
Does Separating Romani Schoolchildren in France Violate the Equality Principle or Establish Ethnic Discrimination?
Budapest, 11 May 2017: In 2013 several Romani families living in an informal settlement in Ris-Orangis (Essonne) made a formal request for school enrolment of 12 children. The mayor created a separated class for these children in an isolated room in a sport centre without any connection with any regular school instead of enrolling them in schools ...
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Written comments by the ERRC to the European Commission on enlargement component of the EU Roma Framework.
The impact of conflict on minority populations merits special attention, especially if those minorities have long been marginalized, viewed by the warring parties with a mixture of ambivalence and contempt, and deemed to be communities of little consequence in the peace-building processes that follow the conclusion of hostilities. This issue of Roma Rights Journal takes a look at the fate of Roma during and after conflicts.
