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| The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. The approach of the ERRC involves, in particular, strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and policy development, and training of Romani activists. |
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Racial Segregation Continues in Czech Schools Despite Landmark European Court Ruling
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Prague, 13 November 2008 - Roma children in the Czech Republic continue to be sent to sub-standard schools in disproportionate numbers, according to a report issued today by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC).
Exactly one year after the European Court of Human Rights found that the Czech school system discriminates against Roma students, Czech government officials and Roma rights advocates agreed that little has changed for the students: most are condemned to second-class education in dead-end primary schools with virtually no opportunity for secondary or tertiary education. |
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Roma Rights 1, 2008
Roma Education: The Promise of D.H.
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On 13 November 2007, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights made a landmark decision advancing anti-discrimination jurisprudence in Europe, ruling that the segregation of Romani students in special remedial schools is a form of unlawful discrimination. This momentous decision for Roma across Europe was made in the case D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic (also known as the "Ostrava Case"). |
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Romanian Government Urged to Respect European Court Judgments
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ERRC Action in Support of Romanian Activist's Protest against Government Inaction
Budapest, Bucharest, 6 October 2008: Today, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) sent a letter of concern to Romanian authorities, drawing attention to the hunger strike of human rights activist Istvan Haller and calling on the government to take measures to monitor and safeguard Mr Haller's health. |
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Rights Groups Press Czech Government on Roma Education
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BUDAPEST, 16 September 2008: Despite changes in legislation and a landmark ruling from Europe’s highest court, racial segregation of Roma children remains a fixture of education in the Czech Republic, a coalition of rights groups said today. |
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The European Roma Rights Centre Calls on the EU to Reaffirm Human Rights Standards in Policies on Roma
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BUDAPEST, 15 September 2008: The European Roma Rights Centre issues a statement today to bring to the attention of European Union and national policy-makers standards for the protection of human rights established in recent years by European and United Nations treaty bodies ruling on cases of human rights violations against Roma. We look forward to the European Roma Summit starting tomorrow to reaffirm these standards as fundamental in policy-making on Roma. |
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European Court of Human Rights Fails to Find Discrimination in Education against Roma in Croatia
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18 July 2008, Budapest, Zagreb: In a setback for Roma rights, the European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled that Croatia's segregation of Roma children in separate classes does not breach European human rights standards.
The judgment in the case of Orsus and Others v. Croatia held that the applicants - 14 Romani children attending primary school - were not subjected to discrimination in access to education. As a result, the Court found no violation of Article 3 (prohibition against inhuman and degrading treatment) or Article 2, Protocol 1 (right to education) of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), in connection with Article 14 (non-discrimination), or of Article 13 (effective domestic remedy). The Court found that the government of Croatia had violated Article 6(1) of the ECHR (right to due process and fair trial) as the proceedings before the Constitutional Court in Croatia lasted more than four years. The application was filed by the European Roma Rights Centre, in partnership with the Croatian Helsinki Committee and Croatian attorney Lovorka Kusan.
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Ukrainian Authorities Urged to Ensure Justice for Roma
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On 15 July 2008, the ERRC addressed the Ukrainian Minister of Interior, Mr Iurii Lutsenko, to express deep concern about the failure of the Ukrainian justice system with respect to serious breaches of the fundamental human rights of Roma in Ukraine.
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Hundreds of Activists Support Campaign for Compensation for Coercively Sterilised Romani Women
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Romani Women's Rights Coalition Successfully Reaches Global Women's Movement
15 July 2008, Budapest, Prague, Ostrava: Starting at the beginning of July, members of the Ostrava-based Group of Women Harmed by Sterilisation and their advocates from European Roma Rights Centre and Peacework Development Fund initiated a campaign to activate the global women's rights movement in lobbying efforts for public recognition of coerced sterilisation and compensation for Romani survivors of these practices in Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. |
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Anti-Romani Developments in Italy Highlighted in a Report Launched by NGOs at the OSCE Meeting on Sustainable Roma Policy
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International NGO Coalition Report Outlines Extreme Deterioration of Roma Rights in Italy
10 July 2008, Budapest, Bucharest, Geneva, Vienna: Today, a coalition of NGOs launched a report on the deterioration of the human rights situation of Roma and Sinti in Italy, on the occasion of the OSCE's Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Sustainable Policies for Roma and Sinti Integration in Vienna. Coalition members include the European Roma Rights Centre, the Open Society Institute, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Romani Criss and the Roma Civic Alliance of Romania. |
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Support the Campaign of Romani Survivors of Coerced Sterilisation for Apologies and Compensation
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3 July 2008, Budapest, Madrid, Ostrava, Prague: Today, a coalition comprised of the Ostrava-based Group of Women Harmed by Sterilisation, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Peacework Development Fund launch a global campaign seeking support for Romani women victimised by coerced sterilisation practices in Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. The campaign is supported by the Open Society Institutes Public Health Program and the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Warsaw.
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NGO Coalition Urges CERD Intervention on Italy's Roma Crisis
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2 July 2008: Budapest, Geneva, Bucharest: Today, a Coalition of organisations submitted a memorandum requesting that the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) engage its follow-up procedure or urgent action/early warning mechanism with regard to the anti-Romani crisis in Italy. The Coalition urged the CERD Committee to undertake an immediate examination of the current situation and closely monitor the human rights situation in Italy. |
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European Roma Policy Coalition Statement on EU Social Agenda
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2 July 2008, Budapest, Brussels: Today, the European Roma Policy Coalition, of which the ERRC is a member, issued a statement highlighting the failure of the EU’s Social Agenda, announced today, to propose any long term strategy aimed at Roma inclusion. In its statement, the ERPC called on the European Commission to devise an ambitious Framework Strategy matched by a Community Action Programme and supported by an institutional co-ordination mechanism with quantifiable targets and benchmarks; introduce an effective monitoring mechanism; and build upon current initiatives such as the Decade of Roma Inclusion, devised in close cooperation with member states and civil society. |
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Bulgarian Authorities Urged to Stop Planned Forced Eviction of Roma
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ERRC Advocates Sustainable and Adequate Housing Solutions for Bulgarian Roma
2 July 2008, Budapest: Today, the ERRC urged Bulgarian authorities to undertake urgent action to stop the forced eviction of approximately 180 Roma from the Batalova Vodenitsa neighbourhood in the Vazrazhdane district of Sofia, planned for 11 July 2008. In its letter, addressed to Bulgarias President Georgi Parvanov and Sofias Mayor Boyko Borisov, the ERRC recalled that the Bulgarian state has a positive obligation to ensure that evictions, when carried out, satisfy respect for the dignity of the persons concerned, even when they are illegal occupants, and that alternative accommodation or other compensatory measures are available in order to ensure that the persons evicted are not made homeless. |
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