Brussels, Skopje, 5 September 2024: On 9 May 2024, Skopje’s Court of Appeal confirmed the ruling of the first instance court (following an order for re-trial from the Supreme Court) in favour of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) on behalf of children in the Tetovo Correctional Home (currently located in the village of Volkovija) who are denied their right to education. Despite this court order, the ERRC has learned that education is still not being provided to the children in the correctional facility for whom the new academic year started this week. The ERRC reminds the Department of Execution of Sanctions (Ministry for Justice) and the Ministry of Education of their obligations, mandated by the highest court in the country, to provide access to education for these children.

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The pivotal role of sport in social inclusion and integration of minorities and socially disadvantaged communities has been recognised time and again, yet in many places access to sports for Roma, Sinti, and Travellers remains limited.

Bratislava, Brussels 22 July 2024: A Slovak civil court has issued an historic first instance ruling in a police brutality case brought by Roma from a community in Vrbnica against the Slovak Ministry of Interior.

Brussels, Athens, 1 July 2024: The Greek Ombudsman is actively addressing a complaint filed by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Greek Civil Society Organizations, the Greek Helsinki Monitor, and Pro Bono Publico concerning an incident where the Mayor of Perama, Giannis Lagoudakos, racially abused and threatened a Romani mother and her children.

Brussels, 17 June 2024: A new report on the human rights situation of Romani refugees from Ukraine in five receiving countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia) was released today by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and details widespread, structural denial of access to basic rights for Roma from Ukraine resident in those countries. 

Brussels, Prague 29 May 2024: The European Committee of Social Rights has issued a landmark ruling against the Czech Republic, acknowledging that the lack of sufficient data collection on the overrepresentation of Romani children in the country’s state care constitutes indirect discrimination. This binding ruling is the outcome of a complaint jointly filed by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Forum for Human Rights (FORUM) in early 2020.

Brussels, 20 May 2024: In protest of decades of racist policy, denial of basic human rights, and democratic backsliding at the hands of the Fidesz regime in Budapest, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) will boycott the upcoming Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.