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Violence Against Roma on the Rise: ERRC Testifies

16 February 2012

Budapest, Washington, 16 February 2012: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) made a statement on the escalation of violence against Roma at a hearing in Washington DC yesterday.

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ERRC Research Coordinator Djordje Jovanovic on Romani Children in Institutional Care

20 December 2011

 

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ERRC Executive Director Dezideriu Gergely: National Roma Strategies

10 November 2011

 ERRC Executive Director Dezideriu Gergely spoke recently at the conference “National Roma Strategies: Ensuring a Comprehensive and Effective European Approach.”

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ERRC Research and Advocacy Coordinator Ostalinda Maya on How Human Trafficking Affects Roma

23 September 2011

The European Roma Rights Centre and People in Need Slovakia published a report on how human trafficking affects Roma in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

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ERRC Director Robert Kushen speaks to EUObserver: Roma rights still neglected in the EU

8 July 2011

Although the European Commission has a relatively new Roma integration strategy, the director of the European Roma Rights Centre Robert Kushen questions whether they will follow through with it and demand real action from from member states to address Roma exclusion.

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ERRC Executive Director Robert Kushen: Sticks and Stones and Words that Hurt: Roma Rights in Quotation

5 July 2011

Call the Witness, the Roma Pavilion, was a collateral event in the framework of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale die Venezia, 2011. It was organized by Open Society Foundations, and developed and realized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht un ...

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ERRC Research Officer Stanislav Daniel on State Response to Violence Against Roma

19 May 2011

Since 2008, we in the European Roma Rights Centre have received reports about a shocking number of attacks against Roma. Nine Romani adults and two Romani children died in these attacks as a result of shooting and Molotov cocktails. Many other Romani individuals and families were attacked, even in the safety of their ...

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ERRC Executive Director Robert Kushen on Roma in Today’s Europe: Contemporary Patterns of Prejudice and Discrimination

5 February 2011

ERRC Executive Director Robert Kushen speaks at the Spring 2011 Symposium, “Racially inferior”: Roma, Sinti and other Holocaust victims, organised by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University on 1 February 2011. [Rob’s speech “Roma in Today ...

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ERRC Executive Director Robert Kushen on Implementation of Judgments

7 October 2010

The morning after a court victory I am often left wondering what we, at the European Roma Rights Centre, have won. For the people we represent, court victories can be at best symbolic: they may receive a little bit of money, but this hardly begins to compensate them for the dama ...

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Roma Rights
National Strategies on Roma Inclusion: Effectiveness, Impact and Cost

8 May 2012

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is looking for original articles and other submissions (book reviews, interview with key figures and conference reports) from a broad range of disciplines addressing the European Union’s Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies.

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SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE: Targeted Evictions and Deportations of Roma

19 August 2010


Update: ERRC submits additional documentation of French violations of EU Law to European Commission during final days of legal consideration. Media inquiries: sinan.gokcen@errc.org (+36.30.500.1324).

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ERRC Seeks Interns

14 May 2012

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) invites applications for its full-time internship programme. The ERRC offers interns a dynamic, fast-paced, international human rights environment, based in Budapest, Hungary. Romani and non-Romani interns are chosen for this programme through a competitive bi-annual selection process. The ERRC is currently accepting applications from persons wishing to intern at the ERRC for three to six months between September 2012 and February 2013.

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