Roma Rights 4, 2003: Political Rights

07 February 2004

Roma Rights 4, 2003 takes as its theme "Political Rights". Roma in Europe do not exercise political rights on an equal basis with other citizens. Roma are under-represented in political life and otherwise frequently excluded from participation in public affairs. The exclusion of Roma from public life is a factor which aggravates the belated and generally problematic process of developing and implementing policies on Roma in today's Europe. The current issue of Roma Rights presents the views of a number of analysts of, researchers on and activists in the Romani movement regarding the state of Romani participation and its prospects. Particular attention is paid to the role of Romani women in public life.

Roma Rights 4, 2003: Political Rights (PDF)

• Political Rights of Roma (Savelina Russinova)

• National Democratic Institute Assesses Roma Political Participation in Future EU Members: Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia

• Roma in Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland (Eva Sobotka) 

• Obstacles to the Participation of Roma in Elections in Romania (Cristi Mihalache)

• Legal but Illegitimate: The Gypsy Minority Self-Government in Jászladány (Anita Danka and Nicole Pallai)

• European Forum For Roma And Travellers: From the Finnish Initiative to the Franco-Finnish proposal (Miranda Vuolasranta)

• The Romani Nation or: (Paolo Pietrosanti)

• The Challenges of and for Romani Women (Nicoleta BiĹŁu)

• Romani Women's Participation in Public Life (Isabela Mihalache)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina * Bulgaria * Czech Republic * Germany * Greece * Hungary * Italy * Macedonia * Romania * Russia * Serbia and Montenegro * Slovakia * Slovenia * Spain * United Kingdom

• Court Action Against Segregated Education in Bulgaria: A Legal Effort to Win Roma Access to Equality (Margarita Ilieva and Daniela Mihaylova)

• Report on the Field Research into the Housing Situation of Roma in the Village of Svinia, Slovakia (Alexander Mušinka)

• Out and Away: The Housing Rights Situation of Roma in Hungary (Margaret Hagan and Tara Bedard)

• ERRC/COHRE Housing Rights Action Before European Committee of Social Rights

• Roma in Turkey (Tara Bedard)

• Highly Irregular Greek Police Investigation into the Ill-Treatment of Romani Men by Police Officers (Panayote Dimitras)

• ERRC Scholarship Recipients: Academic Year 2003/2004

• Lund Rekomodacie pala efektivo lethanipe/participacia nacionale minoriteturengo thaj eksplanaciake/sikavimaske note Romani-language translation of the Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life

• Reflections from America (Gloria Jean Garland)

• Chronicle