Brussels, Budapest, 19 May 2025 – The Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Ombudsperson for the Rights of National Minorities in Hungary, Dr. Erzsébet Szalayné Sándor, has confirmed systemic violations of the rights of Romani children in the Bűdi district of Tiszavasvári, Hungary, where Romani children are forced to walk up to 7 kilometres daily, often in harsh weather, to attend school due to the complete lack of transportation.

Bratislava, Brussels 16 April 2025: Ten years after the EU launched an infringement procedure against Slovakia for breaching the EU Race Equality Directive, Romani children still face entrenched discrimination in education.

Brussels, 25, March 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes a significant settlement agreement reached in a case of systemic discrimination by a water company against Romani residents of the Banlozi camp, located near Zenica in Bosnia & Herzegovina. 

Brussels, 20 March 2025: A project to evict Romani residents from a segregated camp and rehouse them in new built, segregated social housing units using EU funding has been modified by the Region of Calabria following an intervention from the European Commission at the request of Roma Rights activists.

Brussels, Rome, 13 March 2025: Activists from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), with support from Associazione 21 luglio and the Comitato Campano con i Rom, have filed a collective complaint before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) urging the Committee to ensure that the Italian Government adopt immediate measures to prevent an imminent eviction of Romani families from a camp at Via Carrafiello in Giugliano, in Campania, in the province of Naples.

Bratislava, Brussels 28 February 2025: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Slovakia discriminated against a Romani pupil who was placed in a special class for children with mild intellectual disabilities. In the case of SALAY v. SLOVAKIA, where the applicant was represented by the ERRC, the court ruled that the pupil received an education which did not offer the necessary guarantees stemming from the positive obligations of the State to undo a history of racial segregation in special education.

Budapest, Brussels 14 February 2025 – Segregated kindergartens in Kalocsa, Hungary have been shut down and measures put in place to ensure integrated education for Romani children following an investigation and legal complaint by the Rosa Parks and Polgár Foundations, with support from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). The Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights - Ombudsperson for the Rights of National Minorities in Hungary brought a decision on 31 January 2025 against the head of the kindergartens in the city of Kalocsa and the municipality responsible for their administration.