Research and Policy
(Last modified: 2005-01-13 13:31:26)
ERRC Research and Policy is one of three streams in the ERRC Programmes Department. Since its founding in 1996, Roma rights research, monitoring and documentation has been the cornerstone of the ERRC human rights action. The ERRC has made reliable, fact-based research throughout Central and Eastern Europe, in western European countries, Russia, Ukraine and the Caucauses. Some of our research topics include violence against Roma; discrimination in access to social and economic rights (education, health care, employment and housing), access to justice, Romani women’s rights, asylum and immigration, and personal documents. ERRC reports, advocacy campaigns and legal submissions are grounded in rigorous research undertaken according to tested human rights research methodologies.
Quality research is the basis of ERRC policy recommendations to governments and inter-governmental organisations. ERRC research has come to be the standard according to which human rights research on Roma is measured. In recent years, ERRC Research and Policy has been involved in major projects including comprehensive research toward a European Commission report The Situation of Roma in an Enlarged European Union (http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=2119), as well as a number of targeted projects (Special Projects: http://www.errc.org/Projects_index.php) related to the documentation of schooling and housing issues. In-depth research into access of Roma to social and economic rights provides a basis for the ERRC's expanding engagement in Roma rights policy development.
ERRC Research and Policy is also responsible for ERRC Publications (http://www.errc.org/Publications_index.php), including:
The Roma Rights Quarterly (http://www.errc.org/Romarights_index.php),
Country Reports (http://www.errc.org/Countryrep_index.php),
Thematic Reports (http://www.errc.org/Thematic_index.php),
Position Papers (http://www.errc.org/Pospapers_index.php)
Press Releases (http://www.errc.org/Pressrel_index.php). |
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