Final Court Judgment Confirms State Responsibility for Systemic Failures That Leave Roma Without Access to ID in North Macedonia
23 December 2025
Brussels, Skopje, 23 December 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (MYLA) welcome the final judgment of 20 November 2025 from the Court of Appeal in Skopje which has fully upheld the first-instance ruling in a landmark case marking a major step to safeguard the rights of unregistered persons, particularly Roma, in North Macedonia.
New Data Shows Forced Evictions & Hate Speech Against Roma Have Become Routine in Italy
19 December 2025
Brussels, 19 December 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)’s Census of Forced Evictions of Roma in Italy: 2021 – 2025 demonstrates that regular evictions of Romani families by local authorities have become a matter of routine in Italy, with more than 129 evictions carried out over the four year period. While the census counts at least 696 people, comprising 67 families who were in most cases made homeless or placed in unstable housing conditions, the gaps in the data and spread of anti-Roma hate speech point to a wider problem in the normalisation of forced evictions of Roma in Italy which has rendered the scandal largely invisible in national reporting.
ERRC Launches LGBTIQ+ Roma Exhibition in Brussels
02 October 2025
Brussels, 2 October 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is proud to announce the opening of RoMagic: Proudly Queer. Unapologetically Roma, a groundbreaking exhibition bringing visibility to the struggles, resilience, and pride of Romani LGBTIQ+ communities. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 2 October at Rue Lebeau 43, Brussels, and runs daily until 8 October.
UN Human Rights Committee Condemns North Macedonia for Anti-Roma Discrimination at Borders
27 August 2025
Brussels, Skopje 27 August 2025 — The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes a landmark opinion by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC), which has found that North Macedonia violated the rights of two Romani citizens who were unlawfully prevented from leaving the country a decade ago.
Major Court Win for Roma at Risk of Statelessness in North Macedonia
17 July 2025
Brussels, Skopje 17 July 2025: The Skopje Basic Civil Court published a first-instance judgment on 8 July 2025 marking a significant step safeguarding the rights of unregistered persons, particularly Roma, in North Macedonia. The collective lawsuit was brought by lawyers from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (MYLA) against the Ministry of Justice’s - Department for Keeping Civil Registers- Skopje, challenging the Ministry’s failure to comply with the Law on Unregistered Persons in the Birth Register, which has resulted in systemic exclusion and discrimination of Roma and other persons registered in the ‘Special Birth Registry’ who have obtained an identification document denying them equal access to their rights in North Macedonia.
European Committee Orders Italy to Take Immediate Measures to Protect Evicted Romani Families in Giugliano, Campania
17 July 2025
Brussels, Rome, 17 July 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Associazione 21 luglio welcome the European Committee of Social Rights' (ECSR) decision to declare the collective complaint against Italy (No. 244/2025 European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) v. Italy) admissible and, crucially, to grant the request for immediate measures to protect Romani families facing homelessness and severe health risk in Giugliano in Campania (Naples).
Anti-Roma Police Violence in Veľká Ida Must be Investigated for Racist Motivation Says ERRC and Amnesty International
01 July 2025
Bratislava, Brussels 1 July 2025 - The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Amnesty International Slovakia are deeply alarmed by media reports of police violence against Romani residents during a police operation in the Romani community of Veľká Ida, Slovakia, on 28 June 2025. According to publicly available information, including footage circulating on social media,