Judgments/decisions
(Last modified: 2005-05-25 13:50:17)
The following are important judgements or decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) or UN Treaty Bodies in cases
involving human rights violations of Roma:
D.H. and others v the Czech Republic
Violation of article 2 of Protocol 1 (right to education) read with article 14 (discrimination on the basis of race). A case launched eight years ago by 18 Roma children who sought legal redress for the
practice widespread in Central and Eastern Europe—of shunting Roma students, regardless of their intellectual abilities,
into "special" schools for children with learning disabilities. - CASE FILE
Case of Moldovan and Others v. Romania; village of Hadareni
The European Court of Human Rights on 13 July 2005 ruled that Romania violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on
Human Rights for failing to provide justice in connection with a 1993 pogrom and its aftermath. The case involves the killing by
a mob of three Romani men and the subsequent destruction of fourteen Romani houses in the village of Hadareni in Mures County,
northwestern Romania, as well as the degrading circumstances in which the victims were forced to live after the event.
Full Hadareni judegement: View it (MSWord doc format)!
Friendly settlement: View it (MSWord doc format)!
Merits of the case: View it (MSWord doc format)!
Nachova and Others v. Bulgaria
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday affirmed in substantial part its first ever finding of racial
discrimination in breach of Article 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The Court's ruling makes clear that European
states have an obligation to investigate possible racist motives behind acts of violence.
The case concerns the
July 19, 1996, fatal shooting by military police soldiers of two Roma conscripts. The victims, recently absconded from a
military construction crew, were known to be unarmed and not dangerous. The killing, by automatic weapon fire, took place in
daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived. Immediately after the killing, a
military police officer allegedly yelled at one of the town residents, "You damn Gypsies!" while pointing a gun at him.
Download it (zip file)!
Ms. L. R. et al. v. Slovak Republic (Dobsina) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, acting under
article 14, paragraph 7, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is of the view that the
facts before it disclose violations of article 2, paragraph 1(a), article 5, paragraph d(iii), and article 6 of the Convention
(CERD). View it (MSWord doc format)!
Balogh v. Hungary (ECtHR) - violation of Article 3 View it (MSWord doc format)!
Connors v. the United Kingdom (ECtHR) - violation of Article 8 View it (MSWord doc format)!
G.B. v. Bulgaria (ECtHR) - violation of Article 3 View it (MSWord doc format)!
Velikova v. Bulgaria (ECtHR) - violation of Articles 2 and 13 View it (MSWord doc format)!
Anguelova v. Bulgaria (ECtHR) - violation of Article 2, 3, 5 and 13 View it (MSWord doc format)!
Assenov v. Bulgaria (ECtHR) - violation of Articles 3, 5, 13, 25 View it (MSWord doc format)!
Conka v. Belgium (ECtHR) - violation of Articles 5, P4-4, 13. View it (MSWord doc format)!
Chapman v. the United Kingdom - no violation found but useful language from the Court View it (MSWord doc format)!
Koptova v. Slovakia (CERD) View it (MSWord doc format)!
Lacko v. Slovakia (CERD) View it (MSWord doc format)!
Dzemajl v. FR Yugoslavia (CAT) View it (MSWord doc format)! |
