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.

ERRC submission to the European Commission on Roma Inclusion in enlargement countries (May 2017)

25 May 2017

ERRC Reports Concerns About Child Marriages to UN Committees

28 September 2011

Romani Children in Kosovo being Poisoned by High Lead Levels

02 December 2005

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.

Policy Brief: Environmental Racism, the Climate Crisis, and Europe’s Roma

23 May 2024

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

ERRC submission to the European Commission on Roma Inclusion in enlargement countries (May 2017)

25 May 2017

Roma Rights 1 2017: Roma and Conflict: Understanding the Impact of War and Political Violence

16 May 2017

Justice for the Kosovo Victims of Lead Poisoning! #UNJustToRoma

30 August 2016

ERRC submission to the European Commission on Roma Inclusion (July 2016)

12 July 2016

Roma Rights 1 2014: Going Nowhere? Western Balkan Roma and EU Visa Liberalisation

01 October 2014

Roma Rights 2012: Challenges of Representation: Voice on Roma Politics, Power and Participation

22 August 2013

Abandoned Minority: Roma Rights History in Kosovo

18 October 2012

17 Refugee Families Receive New Flats

13 November 2006

MG-S-ROM – Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Roma, Gypsies and Travellers: 10 years Experience Behind and New Challenges Ahead

06 November 2006

The Decade of Roma Rights

31 October 2006

European Court of Human Rights Has No Jurisdiction in Kosovo Lead Poisoning Case

03 April 2006

UN Human Rights Committee Reviews Kosovo

24 March 2006

ERRC submission to UN HRC on Kosovo (February 2006)

20 February 2006

Roma Rights 3-4, 2005: Justice for Kosovo

01 February 2006

Roma Rights in Kosovo: Joint Statement to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

01 February 2006

European Roma Rights Centre Presses for Criminal Charges Related to Extreme Harms in Northern Kosovo

01 February 2006

Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Expresses Concern over Romani IDPs and Victims of Lead Poisoning

01 February 2006

"When We Learned What Was Expecting Us"

01 February 2006

Everyone Fiddles while the Roma Burn

01 February 2006

Alarming Facts about Roma Camps in North Mitrovica: Lead Poisoning of Romani Children

31 January 2006

In the Aftermath of Ethnic Cleansing: Continued Persecution of Roma, Ashkalis, Egyptians and Others Perceived as

31 January 2006

Implementation of the Anti-discrimination Law in Kosovo: A Plan in Need of Execution

31 January 2006

Seeking Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations Against the Roma in Kosovo

31 January 2006

Justice for Kosovo

31 January 2006

Update

31 January 2006

ERRC Testifies at European Parliament on Situation of Roma and Others Regarded as

22 July 2005

Romani Families Remain in Toxic Area in Kosovo

22 July 2005

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Charges Kosovo Albanians in Connection with Wedding Party Slaying of Roma during Kosovo War

22 July 2005

In the Aftermath of Ethnic Cleansing: Continued Persecution of Roma, Ashkalis, Egyptians and Others Perceived as "Gypsies" in Kosovo

24 June 2005

Kosovo Authorities House Romani Families in Toxic Area

11 March 2005

My Life as a Refugee, 1999-2004

11 March 2005

UNHCR Finds

16 December 2004

Statement of the Roma, Askalija and NGOs defending their human rights, participants to the OSCE SHDM

15 November 2004

Kosovo Ombudsperson Urges against the Return of Roma, Ashkaelia and Egyptians to the Province

29 July 2004

Kosovo Police Officers Beat Romani Man

29 July 2004

Ethnic Cleansing of Minorities in Kosovo

28 May 2004

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

29 October 2003

Personal Documents and Threats to the Exercise of Fundamental Rights of Roma in Europe

29 October 2003

Roma Face Violence and Housing Problems in Kosovo

07 November 2002

Migration, Asylum and Roma Rights Policy: A 3-Part Basis for Good Governance

10 July 2002

Roma, Ashkalija and Egyptians Face Serious Protection Problems in Kosovo

10 July 2002

Grants Awarded

07 May 2002

Germany's Policies toward Sinti and Roma: Living Apartheid?

07 May 2002

Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians Win Seats in the Kosovo Assembly

07 May 2002

In Serbia, Displaced Kosovo Roma Face Harsh Reality and Little Assistance

07 May 2002

Attacks on Kosovo Roma in Montenegro

07 May 2002

Violence against Roma in Kosovo continues

07 November 2001

ERRC press statement: Roma in the Macedonia conflict

15 August 2001

No end to attacks on Roma in Kosovo

15 August 2001

Update on displaced Kosovo Roma around Europe

15 August 2001

Attack on “Gypsy” woman in hospital in Macedonia

10 April 2001

Roma and other minorities in Kosovo

10 April 2001

Roma held in detention without charges for over one year in Kosovo

05 December 2000

"Gypsies" killed in Kosovo

05 December 2000

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

19 October 2000

Unprotected: attacks continue against Kosovo?s Romani minorities

03 October 2000

Continued attacks against Roma in Kosovo

03 October 2000

Kosovo Romani refugees

03 October 2000

Displaced Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina

11 July 2000

Political participation of Roma in Kosovo

11 July 2000

"There is chaos in Kosovo..."

11 July 2000

Roma dignity restored in a landmark judgement

12 April 2000

Kosovo Roma today: violence, insecurity, enclaves and displacement

12 April 2000

Roma Rights 1, 2000: Women's rights

12 April 2000

Deyan Kiuranov - Vendetta on the non-existent: of Kosovo Roma in and out of the international media

07 December 1999

Sticks, stones and names

07 December 1999

ERRC letter to UN Secretary General H.E. Kofi Annan concerning the protection of Romani civilians in Kosovo

05 September 1999

Roma continue to flee from eastern Europe

05 September 1999

Roma from Kosovo Testify

02 August 1999

Declaration of the participants in the Balkan Roma conference for peace and security

15 July 1999

ERRC in Kosovo: pogrom situation

15 July 1999

Romani refugees from Kosovo in Albania

15 July 1999

The Roma of Kosovo

15 July 1999

Roma Rights 2, 1999: Roma and the Kosovo Conflict

15 July 1999

The last Yugoslavs

15 July 1999

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

04 June 1999

The other refugees

03 April 1999

Roma and the Kosovo conflict

03 April 1999

Roma Rights Summer 1998: Roma and the right to education

10 September 1998

Displaced Kosovo Roma

10 September 1998

Field report: Italy

07 November 1997

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.

EU Enlargement and the ‘call of history’, but little progress on Roma inclusion in the Western Balkans

15 November 2023

Antigypsyism After the Holocaust

26 October 2022

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: 25 Years of Waiting for Roma in Europe

15 December 2021

Coronavirus in Kosovo: Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian parties and NGOs pitch in to provide emergency aid

24 March 2020

Anti-Roma Violence Erupts in Kosovo

14 June 2019

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

26 October 2017