News roundup: Snapshots from around Europe
7 November 2001
- British officials continue policy of stopping Roma at Czech airport; Czech Roma and ERRC sue U.K. government
- Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner makes recommendation to member states on foreigners' rights
- Romania adopts measures to stop emigration
- German authorities threaten Romani activist with jail sentence
- Slovakia creates a pure Romani ghetto
- Violence against Roma in Kosovo continues
- Displaced Kosovo Roma in the region: an update
- 47 Latvian Roma refused entry to Estonia
- Romanian town plans ghettoisation of Roma
- In Croatia, non-Roma protest municipal plans to move Roma into their settlement
- Romanian deputies exclude rights of communities from anti-discrimination legislation
- Killing of Romani man by police in Greece
- Evictions, threatened evictions, destruction of property, harassment of Roma by authorities in Greece
- Council of Europe official decries
- Hungarian courts finally acknowledge a racist anti-Romani crime, but punish it inadequately
- UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination review of Ukraine; international monitoring body reports on Finland, Hungary, Liechtenstein and Slovakia
- Two Romani men beaten to death in Russia
- No justice after anti-Romani attacks in Russia
- Four Romani men to receive compensation from police in Hungary
- Pregnant Romani woman beaten by police and then insulted by medical team in Croatia
- Anti-Romani action in Italy
- Violence including rape and killing of Roma in Czech Republic
- Denial of justice in Czech race crimes
- Racially motivated violence against Roma in Serbia
- Racially motivated attacks against Roma in Bulgaria
- 18 Romani families face eviction in United Kingdom
- Lawsuit filed in Slovak defamation case
- In Macedonia, Roma not allowed to join minority police training
- Romani Holocaust exhibition in Auschwitz
- Romani family reportedly expelled in the Netherlands
- Romani settlement flooded near Tuzla, Bosnia
- Police violence against minors in Novi Sad and Belgrade, Serbia
- Racist leaflets and graffiti in Romanian towns
- Racist graffiti in Serbian towns
- More skinhead attacks against Roma in Croatia
- Roma protest ban on traditional fair in U.K.
- Romani gravestone desecrated in Bosnia
- Ban on ethnic political parties in Bulgaria ruled illegal by European Court
- Police beat Romani man in Macedonia
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Written comments by the ERRC concerning Hungary for consideration by the European Commission on the transposition and application of the Race Directive and on the legal issues relevant to Roma integration.
