A grim situation for Romani children in state care [HUNGARY]

08 February 2022

We are releasing a series of videos exposing the grim situation Romani children face in state care systems across different EU countries.

In Hungary we spoke with ERRC lawyers who had just won a victory on behalf of Romani children who had been removed from their families in Nógrád County. The court’s judgment found that the Ministry of Human Capacities had violated the right to equal treatment for children who had been taken away from their families due to their financial situation, the majority of whom are Roma. The judge declared that families were discriminated against on the grounds of socio-economic status and poverty, as well as because of their Romani ethnicity. We also spoke to some Romani care leavers about their experience in the care system, and the abuses institutionalised children are forced to endure.