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Roma Rights 2011: Funding Roma Rights: Challenges and Prospects
5 October 2012
The latest issue of Roma Rights, the journal of the European Roma Rights Centre, is available online now. This issue is dedicated to funding.
Roma Rights 2011: Funding Roma Rights (PDF)
Roma Rights 1, 2010: Implementation of Judgments
26 July 2010
This issue of Roma Rights is dedicated to a consideration of implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments and other decisions of international adjudicatory bodies. Although implementation problems plague national justice systems, the European and international systems, without coercive enforc ...
Roma Rights 2, 2009: Multiple Discrimination
27 April 2010
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. There are cases in which a person becomes the victim of a discriminatory practice due to the c ...
Roma Rights 1, 2009: Hard Times for Roma: Economics, Politics and Violence
30 July 2009
For some time now, extremism has been visible in several European countries. Political parties espousing an explicit anti-immigrant, anti-Romani and/or anti-Semitic agenda are gaining electoral success and support from the public. The June 2009 European Parliament elections exemplified this tendency: In several countries, extremist political parties achieved unpreceden ...
Roma Rights 2, 2008: Italy's Bad Example
18 March 2009
2008-09 will be remembered by Roma rights and human rights activists for the extremely troublesome situation of Romani communities in Italy. Mounting racism and anti-Romani sentiment erupted in Naples and Milan in May 2008. Moreover, various legal measures and policies adopted by the public authorities, such as the ongoing "census" of the Romani population and the tran ...
Roma Rights 1, 2008: Roma Education: The Promise of D.H.
3 November 2008
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 Repu ...
Roma Rights 4, 2007: Child Protection
21 April 2008
Child protection is a rapidly developing field in human rights; in the last decades, both the practices and the international legal frameworks have substantially changed and an increasing number of civic initiatives concentrated on this topic became active. With the hope of stimulating an international debate on child protection systems and the position of Roma, this R ...
Roma Rights 3, 2007: Perceptions
21 November 2007
Stereotypes take on a life of their own once they emerge from Pandora's box. Distorted perceptions are mirrored onto ethnic and racial groups and inflict psychological wounds on individuals that are cast as belonging to those groups. The end result is collective marginalisation or collective oppression. This issue of Roma Rights explores the "perceptions" of Roma which ...
Roma Rights 1-2, 2007: Social Assistance
19 June 2007
This issue of Roma Rights takes a critical look at the current efforts to retool the nature of the welfare state across Europe, and how these efforts affect Europe's Romani population. The welfare state attempts to enact social justice for citizens by mitigating unfairness created by market economies through proactive social assistance schemes. In the past, these have ...
“What Happens to Us Now?”1
18 June 2007
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Written comments by the ERRC concerning Italy for consideration by the European Commission on the transposition and application of the Race Directive and on the legal issues relevant to Roma integration.
