What we do - European Roma Rights Centre

Strategic litigation at the ERRC means supporting legal cases designed to expose and contribute to the elimination of discriminatory structures that prevent Roma from enjoying full equality. We are active in both domestic and international courts as well as making submissions to international tribunals, European committees and UN treaty bodies.

European Court Rules For Roma in Ukrainian Pogrom

07 November 2018

Advocacy+Research

We work at a national and international level to ensure that human rights issues facing Romani communities in Europe are firmly on the political agenda. We provide reliable data on the human rights situation of Roma in the form of reports, submissions, and articles to inform international bodies and committees, as well as our own litigation work.

Human Rights Report Catalogues Structural Discrimination Against Romani Refugees from Ukraine

17 June 2024

Temporary Protection: The Ongoing Struggle of Romani Refugees from Ukraine in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia

17 June 2024

In Time of War: Romani Children in State Care in Ukraine

31 August 2023

ERRC Submission to UN HRC on Ukraine (June 2020)

02 June 2020

ERRC submission to UN CRC on Ukraine (October 2019)

31 October 2019

Lack of birth certificates leaves Romani children in Balkans at risk of statelessness and without healthcare or education

26 October 2017

Roma Belong - Discrimination, Statelessness and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

26 October 2017

Joint submission to UN UPR on Ukraine (March 2017)

19 April 2017

Україна: Профіль країни 2011-2012

20 May 2014

ERRC submission to UN CESCR on Ukraine (March 2014)

05 March 2014

ERRC submission to UN CESCR on Ukraine (October 2013)

09 October 2013

Ukraine: Country Profile 2011-2012

17 July 2013

Country Profiles 2011-2012

16 July 2013

ERRC submission to UN HRC on Ukraine (June 2013)

14 June 2013

ERRC submission to UN HRC on Ukraine (October 2012)

09 October 2012

ERRC submission to UN UPR on Ukraine (April 2012)

23 April 2012

ERRC submission to the European Commission on Ukraine (December 2011)

01 December 2011

ERRC submission to UN CEDAW on Ukraine (January 2010)

21 January 2010

ERRC submission to UN CESCR on Ukraine (September 2007)

10 September 2007

Romani Man Released from Ukrainian Prison after Serving Six Years for Crime He Didn't Commit

18 May 2007

Roma Experience Difficulties in Accessing Justice After Pogrom in Ukraine

18 May 2007

Challenging Segregated Education of Roma in Ukraine

18 May 2007

Proceedings Discontinued: The Inertia of Roma Rights Change in Ukraine

05 December 2006

Рух Зупинено: Інертний Стан Дотримання Прав Ромів в Україні

05 December 2006

Police Ill-treatment of Romani Suspect

13 November 2006

UN Human Rights Committee Reviews Ukraine

23 October 2006

ERRC submission to UN HRC on Ukraine (September 2006)

25 September 2006

ERRC submission to UN CERD on Ukraine (June 2006)

19 June 2006

Judges Training in Ukraine

31 March 2006

Romani Family Victim of Recurring Attacks

22 July 2005

In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Human Rights Prospects for Roma in Ukraine

21 July 2005

Ukrainian Police Fingerprint Roma

11 March 2005

Roma Subjected to Abuse of Power by Ukrainian Police Officers

11 March 2005

Discrimination against Roma in Access to Housing in Ukraine

11 March 2005

Taxi Driver Assaults Elderly Romani Woman in Ukraine

11 March 2005

Ukrainian Romani Man Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances; Police Involvement Suspected by Family

16 December 2004

Romani Man Set on Fire in Ukraine

16 December 2004

Ukrainian Authorities Threaten Romani Activist Defending Roma Rights

29 July 2004

Propiska

07 July 2004

ERRC Scholarship Recipients: Academic Year 2003/2004

07 February 2004

Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of Roma by Ukrainian Police

10 May 2003

Police abuse of Romani Youth in Ukraine

07 November 2002

ERRC submission to UN CRC on Ukraine (September 2002)

18 September 2002

Workshop Establishing an Inter-Ukrainian Association of Roma Rights Activists

10 July 2002

Five Roma Die in Arson Attack by Police in Ukraine

07 May 2002

Extreme Poverty, Human Rights and Roma

07 May 2002

UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination review of Ukraine; international monitoring body reports on Finland, Hungary, Liechtenstein and Slovakia

07 November 2001

ERRC submission to UN CERD on Ukraine (June 2001)

29 June 2001

Forester shoots and kills a Romani man in Ukraine

10 April 2001

Flagrant impunity for police abuse in Ukraine

11 July 2000

Ukrainian police terrorise Roma

12 April 2000

Ukrainian authorities fail to provide legal remedy to Roma

12 April 2000

"Citizens! Watch out! There are Gypsies in the passenger section" - Roma in the Ukrainian media

07 December 1999

Roma in Transcarpathian Ukraine file complaints of police abuse

07 December 1999

Harassment and abuse of Roma by Ukrainian authorities

05 September 1999

Protecting Romani Refugees around Europe: A Position Paper by the European Roma Rights Center

04 June 1999

Roma and propiska in Ukraine

03 April 1999

Police in Ukraine have yet to learn about human rights

05 January 1999

Floods in Ukraine leave hundreds of Roma homeless

05 January 1999

Chronicle

10 September 1998

Public attitudes toward Roma in Ukraine

10 September 1998

Police abuse in Transcarpathian Ukraine

15 May 1998

Anti-Romani articles in the Ukrainian press

15 May 1998

More police violence against Roma in Ukraine

07 November 1997

Activities: April - July 1997

15 July 1997

The Roma in Ukraine in word and fact

15 July 1997

Roma Rights, Summer 1997: Romani Holocaust

15 July 1997

The Misery of Law: The Rights of Roma in the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine

18 April 1997

Traces of Pogrom Past: Tatarbunary

10 April 1997

Continuing Police Brutality Against Roma in Transcarpathian Ukraine

10 April 1997

Field Report to the Executive Director

12 October 1996

Activities March-October 1996

12 October 1996

Romani Woman Raped by Police Officers in Ukraine

12 October 1996

News

Using our European network and in-country activists, we publish accurate news about human rights violations against Romani people which are often untold, or silenced, by governments and media. We make it clear that legal action can, and will, be taken to end this injustice.

Hungarian Government's New Decree Threatens Ukrainian Romani Refugees

24 July 2024

The Fight for Fair Roma Representation: Racist Content as a Human Rights Issue

14 May 2024

Racism Doesn’t Stop For War: My New Year’s Eve with Romani Refugees

22 September 2023

Ukraine: New Research on Romani Children in State Care Shows Dangers Posed by Institutionalisation During War

31 August 2023

New Activist Research Exposes Lack of Action on Anti-Roma Hate Speech Online

17 May 2023

Challenging Digital Antigypsyism: Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine

17 May 2023