Roma Rights 1, 2004: What is Roma Rights?

27 May 2004

Issue 1/2004 of the ERRC Quarterly Roma Rights is called "What is Roma Rights?". The issue includes a number of articles involved in Roma rights work addressing the at times contentious questions surrounding the concepts at the core of ERRC action, and those of activists for the fundamental rights of Roma generally. Writing into the present issue are authors including Nicolae Gheorghe, Jeno Kaltenbach, Azbija Memedova, Ronald Lee, Morag Goodwin and ERRC Executive Director Dimitrina Petrova. The issue also includes updates on human rights issues facing Roma in Europe, as well as a number of articles concerning recent ERRC actions. Of particular note is a summary by ERRC Legal Director Branimir Plese of the landmark European Court of Human Rights case Nachova v. Bulgaria. 

Roma Rights 1, 2004: What is Roma Rights? (PDF)

• The Names (Claude Cahn)

• The Roma: Between a Myth and the Future (Dimitrina Petrova)

• Fighting for the Rights of Roma - A Productive Effort in the General Struggle for Human Rights (Interview with Nicolae Gheorghe)

• What is Roma Rights? (Ronald Lee)

• Emerging Romani Voices from Latin America (Druzhemira Tchileva)

• Human Rights Protection is Unavailable to Those Most in Need of It (Interview with Jenő Kaltenbach)

• The Romani Claim to Non-Territorial Nation Status: Recognition from an International Legal Perspective (Morag Goodwin)

• Romani Men and Romani Women (Azbija Memedova)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina ● Bulgaria ● Croatia ● Czech Republic ● Germany ● Greece ● Hungary ● Italy ● Kosovo ● Macedonia ● Moldova ● Norway ● Romania ● Serbia and Montenegro ● Slovakia ● Switzerland ● United Kingdom

• The Strasbourg Court Finally Redresses Racial Discrimination (Branimir Pleše) 

• Housing Rights Litigation (Alan Anstead)

• Roma Housing Rights in Slovakia (Zuzana Veselská) 

• Roma Folklore Classes in Bulgarian Schools: Preparing the Ground for the Desegregation of Romani Education (Deyan Kolev) 

• Germany Before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Lack of Effective Measures to Combat Multiple Discrimination against Sinti and Romani Women (Zarine Habeeb) 

• ERRC Human Rights Workshops: An Emerging Local Debate About School Desegregation of Roma (Larry Olomoofe)

• Dokumento/Carteri Europake Politikane partiengo pala na-rasistikano societato/amalipe (Romani-language translation of the Charter of European Political Parties for a Non-Racist Society)

• Found Path (Rita Izsák)

• Chronicle