Journalists
Sinan Gökçen, Media and Communications Officer: sinan.gokcen@errc.org, +36.30.500.1324 (mobile).
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ERRC Urges French President to Halt Mass Eviction and Expulsion Plans for Roma and Travellers
Budapest, Paris, 29 July 2010: In reaction to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to systematically evict French Travellers and migrant Roma from their homes and collectively expel Roma EU citizens from France, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) today called for an end to plans which would lead to gross human rights violations of these ... more
Mass Arrests and Deportations of Romani EU citizens in Copenhagen Condemned
Budapest, Copenhagen, 12 July 2010: Today the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Romano sent a letter to Danish authorities expressing concern regarding the recent mass arrest and deportation of 23 EU citizens of Romani origin in Copenhagen. The groups also condemned anti-Roma speech by Danish officials, including the Mayor of Copenhagen more ...
Roma Rights 2, 2009 Multiple Discrimination
Many international instruments and domestic laws forbid discrimination on a range of grounds. People and human societies are diverse, complex and multi-layered. In most cases, each person bears more than one identity, such as being Roma, a woman, a mother, disabled and so on. more ...
