Roma Rights 4, 1999: Romani media/Mainstream media

07 December 1999

Law may not put an end to racism, but the media might. The role recently played by media in Britain during the case of Stephen Lawrence indicates the power media have to expose the role of race where it is often denied, and to hold a society up to its public for scrutiny. The ERRC will continue to endorse Romani activists who demand retractions when Roma have been cruelly portrayed by the press. We will continue to act as press watchdog and demand that media correct misleading information promoting anti-Romani sentiment. We will continue to use media as a tool in the struggle against racism. And we will continue, as the violence against Roma continues unabated in Kosovo, to wonder whether our position on hate speech is correct.

• Sticks, stones and names (Claude Cahn) 

• Bulgaria * Croatia * Czech Republic * Greece * Hungary * Kosovo * Macedonia * Romania * Slovakia * Slovenia * Sweden * Ukraine * United Kingdom * Yugoslavia 

• Hate speech: new European perspectives (Helen Darbishire) 

• Freedom of expression: a European view (Roger Errera)

• Aliens of Gypsy descent: Romani images in the Greek press (Christina Rougheri) 

• Seen from afar: Roma in the Hungarian media (Gábor Bernáth and Vera Messing) 

• Citizens! Watch out! There are Gypsies in the passenger section: Roma in the Ukrainian media (István Fenyvesi) 

• When the media make a difference: comparing two European race crimes (Beata Klimkiewicz) 

• Cutting edge: the Romanian press and Roma 1990-1994 (Cristina Hanganu)

• Campaigning for Romani media in Bulgaria (Rumyan Russinov)

• Stateless: Roma and the media today (Orhan Galjus) 

• Minorities and media freedom under international law (Helen Darbishire)

• Training programs for Romani journalists (Janis Overlock) 

• Inside the box (Viktória Mohácsi) 

• Vendetta on the non-existant: of Kosovo Roma in and out of the international media (Deyan Kiuranov) 

• Chronicle