Brussels, 11 August 2026: The Roma Rights Network today published the first issue of the relaunched Roma Rights Review, the most comprehensive assessment of the human rights situation of Europe's largest ethnic minority. Built on the direct testimony, casework, analysis, and field documentation of 34 member organisations across 18 countries, the Roma Rights Review stands as the authoritative source on the situation of Roma Rights on the continent. On 8 June 2026, the Roma Rights Network issued a joint declaration warning that the situation had entered a state of acute crisis for Roma in Europe. This publication is the evidence behind that declaration.

Brussels, Tirana, 30 July 2026: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) has filed a legal complaint arguing Albania's increasingly digital-only public administration system creates systemic obstacles for Romani and Balkan Egyptian people from effectively exercising their digital and personal data protection rights. The complaint is lodged with Albania's Commissioner for the Right to Information and Personal Data Protection.

Prague, Brussels, 16 July 2026: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the Czech Republic in the case of the police killing of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš. In a landmark judgment, the Court held the State directly responsible for violating the victim's right to life and prohibiting inhuman treatment, finding that Czech police used disproportionate force and that authorities demonstrated a "manifest lack of diligence" in investigating whether racist motives drove the intervention. The case was brought by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Forum for Human Rights.

Brussels, 7 July 2026: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) has written to the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Interior in North Macedonia urging investigating authorities to carry out an effective criminal investigation into the attempted murder of a 14-year-old Romani boy by three adult male attackers in Skopje. A criminal complaint has been opened against the attackers for the offence of "violence against a child" which the ERRC considers inadequate.

Bucharest, Brussels, 23 June 2026: The Bucharest Court of Appeal has confirmed that social housing regulations in Cluj-Napoca amount to indirect discrimination against Romani families, in a ruling secured by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Center for Legal Resources (CLR).

Brussels, Skopje, 17 June 2026: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes a new decision by North Macedonia’s Commission for Prevention and Protection from Discrimination (KSZD), which has confirmed that Romani children have been subjected to ethnic segregation at OOU “Sande Shterjoški” primary school in Kičevo, North Macedonia. The Commission confirmed that segregation on grounds of ethnicity exists at OOU “Sande Shterjoški” primary school in Kičevo and the practice constitutes discrimination under national anti-discrimination legislation. The complaint to the Commission was brought by the ERRC.

Brussels, 9 June 2026: A coalition of human rights activists and civil society organisations today warned of systemic attacks on Europe’s largest ethnic minority amidst rising fascism, securitization, and the dismantling of the rules-based order. The Roma Rights Network, a group of 33 member organisations spanning 21 European countries, today declared that the human rights situation of the Romani people has entered a state of acute crisis. This joint declaration follows the Roma Rights Network’s annual meeting in Paris, where members assessed a rapidly deteriorating landscape defined by the rise of far-right governance, the erosion of democracy, and the systematic removal of protections for racialised minorities.