Roma Rights 2, 2000: Housing

11 July 2000

Housing and unhousing Roma is the theme of this issue of Roma Rights and a number of authors have provided excellent articles. On evictions, see for example Christina Rougheri’s piece on Greece or ERRC advocacy concerning Italy on page 86. Martin Demirovski writes on the failure of Macedonian authorities to rehouse Roma following a catastrophic fire. Eva Sobotka writes on one Czech ghetto, and the photo essay by Tatjana Perić depicts Roma kept away from their houses due to continuing ethnic hatred in Bosnia. Not all of the articles are negative: Ina Zoon offers a rich description of the right to adequate housing, and Mihail Gheorgiev and Barbora Kvočeková indicate strategies for advocates and litigators in the field of housing. Roma in Ózd will be needing them, and much more, in the coming weeks.

• Unhousing Roma (Claude Cahn) 

• Bosnia and Herzegovina * Bulgaria * Croatia * Czech Republic * Germany * Greece * Hungary * Latvia * Kosovo * Macedonia * Poland * Romania * Slovakia * Spain * Ukraine * Yugoslavia

• The right to adequate housing (Ina Zoon) 

• Expel first: housing policy for Roma in Greece (Christina Rougheri) 

• Fighting for Fakulteta: advocating Roma housing rights in Bulgaria (Mihail Gheorgiev) 

• Life under the bridge: ghettoising Roma in Lower Hrušov, Ostrava, Czech Republic (Eva Sobotka) 

• Displaced Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tatjana Perić) 

• I live here with too many other people: eight years after the fire in Štip, Macedonia (Martin Demirovski) 

• Fighting dirty business: litigating environmental racism (Barbara Kvočekova) 

• ERRC amicus curiae brief in U.K. Gypsy housing case 

• Košice workshop on human rights litigation 

• ERRC appeal not to expel Slovak Romani refugees from Belgium 

• ERRC letter to the Italian Prime Minister 

• Extra-curricular projects for Romani students of law

• My various identities (Gábor Halmai) 

• Chronicle