Athens: This is not a protest. This as a pogrom.
Athens, Budapest, 21 June 2017: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), Solidarity Now, Minority Rights Group – Greece (MRG-G), and the Coordinated Organizations and Communities for Roma Human Rights in Greece (SOKADRE) - a network of 30 Roma communities and 5 Greek NGOs working on Roma rights- call for immedia ...
Victory for Roma: Macedonia Agrees to Pay Compensation for Roma Prison Death
Budapest, 15 June 2017: The Government of Macedonia have agreed to pay €9,000 in compensation to the family of a Romani man who died in suspicious circumstances in prison. The payment is part of a friendly settlement published today which brings to an end a case against Mac ...
EU Executive fails to act as pregnant Romani women and infants are rendered homeless in Italy
Brussels, 14 June 2017: Recent unlawful demolitions of Romani settlements across Italy have left scores of extremely vulnerable people, including heavily pregnant women and children as young as just a few months old, homeless in the country, said the European Roma Rights Centre and Amnesty International today following new research on the ground. The w ...
Roma Rights Organizations Condemn Lack of UN Action on Lead Poisoning in Kosovo
Budapest, 1 June 2017: On Friday 26th May, the United Nations Secretary General expressed his “profound regret” that hundreds of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians were poisoned by lead in camps run by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Advancing Together, Dianne Post, Durmish Aslano, Iniciative 6 ...
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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.
