Brussels, Skopje, 4 May 2026: North Macedonia's Commission for Prevention & Protection against Discrimination has issued a decision against Councillor Ljube Temelkov, finding that his call for Romani people to be "forbidden from voting" constitutes unlawful harassment. The decision, issued on 28 April 2026, is a victory against public, coded hate speech, as the Commission explicitly recognised that using historical slurs and ambiguous language to target Roma does not shield public officials from liability.

Brussels, 28 April 2026:  The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) has filed formal complaints with the national ombudsman institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, and Romania, alleging that Romani children fleeing the war in Ukraine are being systematically denied their right to education. The complaints highlight a pattern of discrimination where children face insurmountable barriers to schooling because of their ethnicity and their refugee status, leaving thousands of children in a state of educational limbo.

Brussels, Bratislava 26 March 2026: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the beating of two Romani sisters by Slovak police, their detention in a toilet and cleaning cupboard, and a deeply flawed investigation violated both the prohibition on inhuman treatment (Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights) and the prohibition of discrimination (Article 14 of the Convention).

Brussels, Skopje, 11 March 2026: The ERRC welcomes the decision communicated by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) concerning the confiscation of passports from Romani citizens who were returned from EU countries. The UN CERD found that North Macedonia violated several provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in relation to the treatment of the applicants in Salim and Others v. North Macedonia.

Brussels, 17 February 2026: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in favour of a Romani couple who were tortured in a police cell in 2017 after reporting their car stolen.

Brussels, Podgorica, 3 February 2026: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes the Ombudsman’s finding that residency and birth registration requirements for Roma, Ashkali, & Egyptian communities in Montenegro are discriminatory, and must be reformed with immediate effect.

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.