Starting from January 2006, the ERRC will implement a two-year project aimed at promoting Roma rights in Turkey. The project is funded by the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights of the European Commission and is implemented in partnership with the Istanbul-based Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCA), Bilgi University’s Human Rights Law Research Centre (HRLRC) and Centre for Migration Research (CMR), and the Edirne-based Romani Cultural Research, Solidarity and Development Association (EDÇİNKAY). The action proposed by the ERRC seeks to build capacity of Roma and other civil society actors to engage in effective advocacy for the rights of Roma and to raise awareness in Turkish society about the human rights problems facing the ...

Objective: Publication of report mapping out patterns of discrimination against Roma in employment and proposing government action to ensure equal employment opportunities for Roma. 

In April 2005 the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) in partnership with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the European Roma Information Office (ERIO) launched the transnational project "Roma and Sinti Participation for Effective Policy in Employment and Education". The project is part of the EU Community Action Program to Combat Discrimination "Transnational actions for the development of policy and/or legal responses to the fight against discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or beliefs, disability, age and sexual orientation".

In 2005 the ERRC launches targeted research into access of Roma to health care services in Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain with support from the Open Society Institute Public Health Program. The project activities are designed to identify major barriers facing Roma in access to health care, including structural disadvantages resulting from the operation of general policies and administrative practices such as the disproportionate exclusion of Roma from health insurance; barriers to access to health care and other disparate impacts on the health of Roma stemming from continuing discrimination in other areas such as education, housing and employment, as well as from discriminatory practices by health care practitioners. Furthermore, the ...

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has co-funded project “Defending Roma Housing Rights in Slovakia”. The project involves field research, litigation and training components. An initial phase of the project involved legal research and factual research into the housing rights situation of Roma in Slovakia. The ERRC designed research methodologies for researchers and supervised a number of local research projects. On the basis of this research, a number of domestic and international lawsuits have been filed, focussing on Roma housing rights issues. In addition, the ERRC, in partnership with the Bratislava-based Milan Šimecka Foundation and with the co-operation of the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, prepared a ...

The EU has funded a project entitled "Defending the rights of Roma in Ukraine and ensuring their access to justice". The ERRC, in collaboration with Uzhorod-based Romani organisation Romani Yag, has made the final selection of participant NGOs in the project. On February 21, 2004, a project-launching conference was held for all project partners, during which the roles and tasks to be performed by each of the project participants were discussed. In March 2004, the ERRC and Romani Yag undertook preparations for the first three trainings envisioned in the project. In May 2004, the first such training, a training for local monitors, was held in Lviv. Early June 2004, training for advocacy officers and paralegals was undertaken in Odessa. Also ...

The ERRC secured four special grants to undertake project work on Russia during the period, and these have considerably expanded ERRC capacities in both ERRC Programmes and the ERRC Legal Department. In addition to activities detailed elsewhere, of particular relevance for ERRC Research and Policy are the following: