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.

The Fragility of Professional Competence: A Preliminary Account of Child Protection Practice with Romani and Traveller Children in England

24 January 2018

ERRC Calls for Action Over the Abuse of Romani Children by England Fans in Lille

22 June 2016

Realising the child's right to participate

03 October 2000

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.

The Fragility of Professional Competence: A Preliminary Account of Child Protection Practice with Romani and Traveller Children in England

24 January 2018

ERRC Joins Call to End Childhood Statelessness in Europe

22 November 2016

ERRC Joins International Call to Halt Forced Eviction of Dale Farm

14 September 2011

UK Authorities Continue to Threaten Travellers with Eviction

18 May 2007

Dale Farm, the Largest Traveller Settlement in Britain, Under Threat

13 November 2006

Travellers in West Sussex seek Permanent Home in Action Taken to the High Court

03 April 2006

Erika Szyszczak

31 March 2006

Positive Action as a Tool in Promoting Access to Employment

31 March 2006

British Newspaper Report Provokes Complaints of Racism

01 February 2006

Dale Farm Evictions

01 February 2006

Political Campaign in Britain Targets Gypsies and Travellers

22 July 2005

Protests against Proposed Amendment to Unauthorised Encampment Law in the UK

22 July 2005

Travellers Forcibly Evicted from Campsites, One Significant Win in Securing Caravan Site

22 July 2005

Report on Health Status of Gypsy/Travellers Published in UK

11 March 2005

Gypsy/Travellers Face Continuing Threats of Eviction in UK

11 March 2005

Victory in ERRC

11 March 2005

Towards Realising a Right to Positive Action for Roma in Europe: Connors v. UK

11 March 2005

Appeal By Teen Who Killed Traveller Boy in the UK Rejected

16 December 2004

Police Call for More Gypsy/Traveller Accommodation Sites in the Wake of Tensions over Illegal Sites

16 December 2004

European Court Finds UK Violated Traveller's Right to Respect for Private Life

29 July 2004

Travellers Face Forced Eviction and Protests against their Sites in UK

29 July 2004

European MEPs Force British Tabloid to Clarify Anti-Romani Statements

29 July 2004

UK Anti-Discrimination Body Announces Crack Down on Anti-Gypsy Signs

29 July 2004

Ethnic Monitoring, Gypsies and Travellers

26 July 2004

Government Restricts Benefits for Immigrants Prior to the Accession of 10 New States to the EU after Racist Campaign against Roma in UK Media

28 May 2004

Study Finds Traveller Children Not Attending School in the UK

28 May 2004

UK Residents Burn Gypsy/Traveller Effigies in Fire

07 February 2004

Travellers Forcibly Evicted in the UK

07 February 2004

Another Group of Czech Roma Expelled from the UK

07 February 2004

Traveller Boy Killed by Teenagers in UK

07 February 2004

The European Roma Rights Center In Action - Developments in Strategic Litigation

29 October 2003

UK Members of Parliament Question the Idea of Safe Country of Origin List

29 October 2003

Not Enough Sites For Gypsy/Travellers in the UK

29 October 2003

ERRC submission to UN CERD on the United Kingdom (July 2003)

28 July 2003

Luke Clements - Turning the Tide

10 May 2003

Enforcement of Rights under the Equality Legislation in Northern Ireland

10 May 2003

Komparativo Analiza Pala Nacionalo Thaj Europako Zakono

10 May 2003

A Unified Approach to Equality Law

10 May 2003

UK Court Rejects Claim of Czech Roma and ERRC

10 May 2003

Repeated Collective Expulsions of Roma from UK

10 May 2003

The First Romani Mayor in the United Kingdom: Inaugural Speech of Mr Charles Smith

10 July 2002

Riot and Fire in Detention Facility in U.K.

07 May 2002

British officials continue policy of stopping Roma at Czech airport; Czech Roma and ERRC sue U.K. government

07 November 2001

18 Romani families face eviction in United Kingdom

07 November 2001

Roma protest ban on traditional fair in U.K.

07 November 2001

An emerging consensus on the special needs of minorities: the lessons of Chapman v. UK

15 August 2001

U.K. municipality forced to provide a permanent site for Gypsy community

15 August 2001

Landmark decision by Scottish Parliament to recognise Scottish Travellers

15 August 2001

Ethnic discrimination enshrined in U.K. law

15 August 2001

Shotgun attack on Travellers in England

15 August 2001

European Court rejects UK Gypsy applicants

10 April 2001

Racism: denial and acknowledgement

05 December 2000

Realising the child's right to participate

03 October 2000

Traditional British Romani horse fair threatened

03 October 2000

ERRC amicus curiae brief in U.K. Gypsy housing case

11 July 2000

UK government may have illegally given Roma asylum; intense anti-Gypsyism in the British press

12 April 2000

Roma evicted from site in Wales; Traveller education dealt blow in Britain

07 December 1999

British Home Secretary Jack Straw reported for inciting racial hatred

05 September 1999

Government report finds Gypsy Travellers particularly hindered in UK schools

15 July 1999

Borders, visas and asylum

15 July 1999

Mr Emil Conka, 37-year-old Romani man from Czechoslovakia

07 July 1999

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

04 June 1999

We came from one kind of fear to another: Czech and Slovak Romani refugees speak

03 April 1999

"Love thy neighbour"

03 April 1999

Misrepresentation of Romani asylum issues in the Hungarian press

03 April 1999

Hrušov quarter, Ostrava, Czech Republic

03 April 1999

Dover, United Kingdom

03 April 1999

Racially motivated violence against Romani asylum seekers in England

03 April 1999

ERRC scholarship recipients

03 April 1999

Roma Rights Autumn 1998: Legal Defence

05 January 1999

Creative human rights litigation

05 January 1999

Roma, asylum, and the visa war

05 January 1999

Letter to the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom

05 January 1999

Chronicle

10 September 1998

Roma from Slovakia seek asylum in the United Kingdom

10 September 1998

The education of Romanies and other Travellers in England and Wales

10 September 1998

Asylum news on Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Roma

15 May 1998

Field report: Britain and France

02 April 1998

UK judge protests detention of male Romani refugees

02 April 1998

Czech government stirs as Roma flee the country

02 April 1998

„Wish you weren’t here” - The response of the British press to Romani asylum seekers

02 April 1998

Activities: August - October 1997

07 November 1997

The European Court of Human Rights Turns Down the First Case

12 October 1996

Activities March-October 1996

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.

Leeds ‘Roma Riots’: A Story of Racialised Deprivation Eclipsed by Far-Right Hate Mongering

05 August 2024

The Roma and the Politics of Anxiety and Transformation

23 July 2020

It’s Kushti to Rokker: It’s time for England to confront its antigypsyism problem

08 January 2020

Channel 5’s “The Town the Gypsies Took Over”: Romani and Traveller people deserve better

15 August 2019

Sorry Andrew Selous MP, But Gypsies & Travellers Will Not Be Assimilated

14 December 2018

Britain First fascists stir up anti-Roma hate in Ballymena

01 November 2018