Strategic Litigation
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.
RISC: Stop Discrimination of Roma in State Care
20 November 2017
20 November 2017
#BetterTogether: Stop School Segregation of Roma
13 November 2017
Čechiko rajariben na kerel lačhi buťi imar pandž berš: o školi diskriminen le romen
08 November 2012
Česká vláda propadá už pátým rokem: školy stále diskriminují Romy
08 November 2012
ERRC Research Coordinator Djordje Jovanovic on Romani Children in Institutional Care
20 December 2011
UN Calls on Czech Authorities to Desegregate Schools
23 June 2011
Life Sentence: Romani Children in Institutional Care
20 June 2011
08 January 2010
Roma Rights 1, 2008: Roma Education: The Promise of D.H.
03 November 2008
Child Protection Concerns in Czech Republic
20 November 2007
03 February 2003
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
16 February 2024
Moving On: Access to Sport for Roma, Sinti, & Travellers in Europe
13 February 2024
Challenging Digital Antigypsyism in the Czech Republic
24 January 2024
Justice Denied: Roma in the Criminal Justice System
02 March 2022
Blighted Lives: Romani Children in State Care
02 February 2021
ERRC submission to UN CAT on the Czech Republic (January 2021)
22 January 2021
21 July 2020
20 November 2017
#BetterTogether: Stop School Segregation of Roma
13 November 2017
Nucené a Kruté: Sterilizace a její důsledky pro Romské ženy v České Republice (1966-2016)
28 November 2016
28 November 2016
ERRC submission to the European Commission on the EU Roma Framework (February 2016)
19 February 2016
07 December 2015
ERRC submission to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (July 2015)
14 July 2015
07 July 2014
ERRC submission to UN CESCR on the Czech Republic (October 2013)
09 October 2013
Czech Republic: Country Profile 2011-2012
17 July 2013
16 July 2013
Čechiko rajariben na kerel lačhi buťi imar pandž berš: o školi diskriminen le romen
08 November 2012
Česká vláda propadá už pátým rokem: školy stále diskriminují Romy
08 November 2012
18 May 2012
07 November 2011
03 June 2011
Imperfect Justice: Anti-Roma Violence and Impunity
06 April 2011
Imperfect Justice: Anti-Roma Violence and Impunity
06 April 2011
08 November 2010
ERRC submission to UN CEDAW on the Czech Republic (September 2010)
22 September 2010
Podání ERRC na OSN CEDAW ve vztahu k České republice (září 2010)
22 September 2010
Persistent Segregation of Roma in the Czech Education System
10 September 2009
Přetrvávající segregace romských dětí v českém vzdělávacím systému
10 September 2009
Roma Rights 1, 2008: Roma Education: The Promise of D.H.
03 November 2008
20 May 2008
Sentence for Police Officer Who Beat Czech Romani Boy Upheld
20 November 2007
Czech State Attorneys Will Not Punish Doctors for Forced Sterilisations of Romani Women
20 November 2007
Child Protection Concerns in Czech Republic
20 November 2007
The Unseen Powers: Perception, Stigma and Roma Rights
20 November 2007
Roma Rights 4, 2006: Romani Women's Rights Movement
27 April 2007
The Glass Box: Exclusion of Roma From Employment
21 February 2007
ERRC submission to UN CERD on the Czech Republic (December 2006)
12 December 2006
Czech Roma Unable to Return to Reconstructed Homes
13 November 2006
Neo-Nazis Attack Roma in Czech Republic
13 November 2006
CEDAW Committee Reviews Czech Republic
13 November 2006
Czech Romaphobia: Notes from the Last Decade
06 November 2006
European Court of Human Rights Finds that Czech Government Violated Right to Fair Trial
03 April 2006
Three Youths Imprisoned for Attacking Romani Couple
03 April 2006
Systemic Exclusion of Roma from Employment
31 March 2006
Roma Denied Entry to Czech Discotheque
01 February 2006
Study Finds Roma to be Most Unpopular Ethnic Group
21 July 2005
Skinheads Found Guilty of Racially-Motivated Attack
21 July 2005
Forced Eviction Crisis in the Czech Republic
21 July 2005
European Commission on Racism and Intolerance Issues Third Report on Czech Republic
16 December 2004
Continuing Violence against Czech Roma
16 December 2004
15 December 2004
Breakthrough: Challenging Coercive Sterilisations of Romani Women in the Czech Republic
15 December 2004
Undiagnosed: The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Roma Health
15 December 2004
29 July 2004
Pharmaceutical Firm Ordered to Pay Compensation for Discriminating against Roma in Czech Republic
29 July 2004
Racist Attacks against Roma in Czech Republic
29 July 2004
07 July 2004
Czech Police Attack Roma in Casino
28 May 2004
16 February 2004
07 February 2004
Roma in Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland
07 February 2004
Skinheads Attack Romani Wedding in Czech Republic
07 February 2004
Romani Families Evicted in Slaný, Czech Republic
07 February 2004
Romani Victims of Human Rights Abuse Compensated in Czech Republic
07 February 2004
Mixed Judicial Outcomes in Czech Race Crimes
07 February 2004
Roma Rights 3/2003: Personal Documents and Fundamental Rights
29 October 2003
29 October 2003
Romani Family Attacked by Czech Police
29 October 2003
Racist Pamphlets Disseminated in Czech Republic
29 October 2003
Inadequate Justice in Czech Race Crime
29 October 2003
08 October 2003
Fighting Discrimination Through the Courts
10 May 2003
Police Abuse Romani Man in Czech Republic
10 May 2003
09 April 2003
ERRC submission to UN CRC on the Czech Republic (January 2003)
13 January 2003
07 November 2002
Continued Racist Violence against Roma in the Czech Republic
07 November 2002
Roma Rights Summer University 2002
07 November 2002
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Reviews the Czech Republic
07 November 2002
Legal Defence of Roma in Czech Republic
10 July 2002
Violence against Roma in the Czech Republic
07 May 2002
Riot and Fire in Detention Facility in U.K.
07 May 2002
The Roma in domestic and international politics: an emerging voice?
07 November 2001
Denial of justice in Czech race crimes
07 November 2001
The Romani movement: what shape, what direction?
07 November 2001
Violence including rape and killing of Roma in Czech Republic
07 November 2001
Crusts from the table: policy formation towards Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
15 August 2001
Prosecuting attacks on Roma in the Czech Republic
15 August 2001
Roma Rights 2-3, 2001: Government programmes on Roma
15 August 2001
More violence against Roma in the Czech Republic
15 August 2001
Romani men in black suits: racism in the criminal justice system in the Czech Republic
10 April 2001
Failure to provide justice to Roma in the Czech Republic
10 April 2001
Roma Rights 1, 2001: Access to Justice
10 April 2001
05 December 2000
05 December 2000
Romani youth attacked by police in Czech Republic
05 December 2000
05 December 2000
Roma Rights 4, 2000: Racism: denial and acknowledgement
05 December 2000
Human rights in the case of the Roma
05 December 2000
Skinhead attacks on Roma in Czech Republic
05 December 2000
Fire bomb attack on Romani house in Czech Republic
03 October 2000
Roma attacked in Czech Republic
03 October 2000
New leadership of the International Romani Union
03 October 2000
Segregation in the Czech Republic
11 July 2000
Skinhead violence against Roma in the Czech Republic
11 July 2000
The ERRC legal strategy to challenge racial segregation and discrimination in Czech schools
12 April 2000
Romani women in Romani and majority societies
12 April 2000
Prosecuting racist criminals in the Czech Republic
12 April 2000
New aliens act in Czech Republic criticised as opening space for arbitrary treatment by authorities
12 April 2000
Roma Rights 1, 2000: Women's rights
12 April 2000
Minorities and media freedom under international law
07 December 1999
Victory in restaurant discrimination case in the Czech Republic
07 December 1999
Czech authorities build ghetto wall, tear it down again
07 December 1999
Attack on Romani community in the Czech Republic
07 December 1999
"G" is for Gypsy on Czech records
07 December 1999
05 September 1999
Czech Republic amends anti-Romani law
05 September 1999
15 July 1999
Roma Rights 2, 1999: Roma and the Kosovo Conflict
15 July 1999
Czech government refuses to demolish pig farm on site of World War II concentration camp
15 July 1999
15 July 1999
Protecting Romani Refugees around Europe: A Position Paper by the European Roma Rights Center
04 June 1999
03 April 1999
Disparate impact: removing Roma from the Czech Republic
03 April 1999
Reduced sentence in racist killing in Czech Republic
03 April 1999
03 April 1999
Hrušov quarter, Ostrava, Czech Republic
03 April 1999
Roma Rights 1, 1999: Forced Migration
03 April 1999
Abuse of Roma by officials in the Czech Republic
03 April 1999
UN Committee rebukes Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy and Portugal for treatment of Roma
03 April 1999
ERRC hosts family meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic
03 April 1999
03 April 1999
05 January 1999
Racially motivated violence on the rise in the Czech Republic
05 January 1999
Czech Romani MP barred from entering a disco
05 January 1999
Roma and the right to education - Roma in the educational systems of central and eastern Europe
10 September 1998
10 September 1998
10 September 1998
"Everyone has the right to education": Article 26: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
10 September 1998
Czech court banishes Rom with Czech citizenship
10 September 1998
Roma Rights Summer 1998: Roma and the right to education
10 September 1998
10 September 1998
Retrial opens in Tibor Danihel killing; other judicial developments in the Czech Republic
10 September 1998
Roma attack Czech extreme right leader
15 May 1998
Asylum news on Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Roma
15 May 1998
Spotlight on civilian violence
15 May 1998
15 May 1998
Romani clients have difficulties in Czech pubs
15 May 1998
Field report: Britain and France
02 April 1998
More police abuse in Písek, Czech Republic
02 April 1998
Roma Rights, Winter 1998: Police Violence against Roma
02 April 1998
Czech government stirs as Roma flee the country
02 April 1998
Chronicle - Activities: November 1998 - March 1999
02 April 1998
Letter to Czech President Václav Havel
02 April 1998
07 November 1997
Commemoration of Roma interned during World War II
07 November 1997
07 November 1997
07 November 1997
07 November 1997
Activities: August - October 1997
07 November 1997
News roundup: Snapshot from around Europe
07 November 1997
Romani woman dies during skinhead attack in the Czech Republic
07 November 1997
Complaint filed against alleged war criminal in the Czech Republic
07 November 1997
ERRC Statement at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe Hearing on
24 October 1997
06 August 1997
Roma Rights, Summer 1997: Romani Holocaust
15 July 1997
The manufactured troubles of L'udovit Gorej
15 July 1997
Roma convicted in Domažlice, Czech Republic
15 July 1997
News Roundup: Snapshots from Around Europe
15 July 1997
15 July 1997
Police abuse of Roma in Písek, Czech Republic
15 July 1997
Community attack on Roma in Klatovy, Czech Republic
15 July 1997
15 July 1997
11 July 1997
The Unnecessary Delay of Justice
10 April 1997
Czech Court Hands Down Verdict in Skinhead Case
10 April 1997
10 April 1997
Czech Government Amends Anti-Romani Citizenship Law, But the Improvements Are Cosmetic
12 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.
ERRC Launches ‘Roma Justice Project’ Platform
16 May 2024
29 February 2024
Doomed to fail? EU Roma Framework on course to be scuttled by states’ racist neglect
16 February 2024
New Research Shows How Racism Prevents Roma, Sinti, & Travellers from Participating in Sport
13 February 2024
New Czech Volunteer-led Research & Legal Action Shows How Roma Can Combat Online Hate
24 January 2024
09 October 2023
Online Hate Speech as a Weapon of the 21st Century Czech Republic
21 September 2023
22 August 2023
War in Ukraine: ERRC Monitoring Report Confirms Discrimination Against Romani Refugees
28 February 2023
Commissioner for Human Rights calls for a ‘breakthrough’ to end Roma exclusion in the Czech Republic
28 February 2023
Breaking the silence: justice denied for Roma in the Czech Republic
07 February 2023
Roma Face Discrimination at Every Stage of Criminal Proceedings in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
07 February 2023
Roma in the Criminal Justice System - Czech Republic
01 February 2023
26 January 2023
15 years since the landmark case, D.H. v the Czech Republic
23 November 2022
Czech Republic Pays Settlement to Romani Man in School Segregation Case Before European Court
29 September 2022
28 April 2022
European Roma Rights Network Launched
08 April 2022
21 March 2022
Public Defender finds Czech police at fault in the death of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš
14 December 2021
01 December 2021
Czech Constitutional Court bans ‘benefit free zones’
01 September 2021
Family of Stanislav Tomáš File Criminal Complaint against Czech Police with ERRC Support
30 June 2021
24 June 2021
Roma and Sinti Activists Mobilise After 7-Year-Old Child Taken by State for Not Speaking German
08 March 2021
Let’s Stop Telling Roma How to Build a Movement
11 March 2020
Hate speech, hate crime and racial segregation of Roma in Czechia – UNCERD is ‘deeply concerned’
30 August 2019
Romani children, their rights and wellbeing: time to reset the research agenda beyond 2020
30 April 2019
Open Letter To Czech President On Racist Comments About Roma
01 October 2018
27 September 2018
FRA report exposes the “scourge of anti-Gypsyism”
10 April 2018
RISC: Stop Discrimination of Roma in State Care
20 November 2017
#BetterTogether: Stop School Segregation of Roma
13 November 2017
No Arrests After Romani Man Beaten to Death in Czech Republic
21 October 2016
ERRC submission to the European Commission on the EU Roma Framework (February 2016)
19 February 2016
12 results in 2015 that will make Europe a better place for Roma
29 December 2015
Will the EU Put an End to Segregation of Roma?
03 December 2015
01 December 2015
13 November 2015
Disappointing Constitutional Court Judgment Still Opens Opportunities to Fight Segregation
02 September 2015
ERRC submission to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (July 2015)
14 July 2015
25 June 2015
Segregation: A Presidential Policy in Prague?
23 January 2015
10 December 2014
26 September 2014
07 July 2014
14 April 2014
ERRC submission to UN CESCR on the Czech Republic (October 2013)
09 October 2013
New Country Profiles on Roma from ERRC
17 July 2013
Czech Republic: Country Profile 2011-2012
17 July 2013
16 July 2013
10 January 2013
Empowering Roma Activists Through Human Rights Education
21 December 2012
29 November 2012
Čechiko rajariben na kerel lačhi buťi imar pandž berš: o školi diskriminen le romen
08 November 2012
Česká vláda propadá už pátým rokem: školy stále diskriminují Romy
08 November 2012
08 November 2012
Roma Rights 2011: Funding Roma Rights: Challenges and Prospects
05 October 2012
18 May 2012
Factsheet: Roma Rights in Jeopardy
16 February 2012
07 November 2011
31 August 2011
UN Calls on Czech Authorities to Desegregate Schools
23 June 2011
08 March 2011
Czech Government Flouts Court Ruling on Roma Education
10 November 2010
08 November 2010
Factsheet: Summit-to-Summit Roma Rights Record 2010
08 April 2010
Czech Prime Minister Apologises to Victims of Coercive Sterilisation
23 November 2009
Persistent Segregation of Roma in the Czech Education System
10 September 2009
Přetrvávající segregace romských dětí v českém vzdělávacím systému
10 September 2009
20 May 2009
Rights Coalition Calls on Canada to Take a Leading Role in Protecting Czech Roma from Persecution
05 May 2009
Racial Segregation Continues in Czech Schools Despite Landmark European Court Ruling
13 November 2008
Roma Rights 1, 2008: Roma Education: The Promise of D.H.
03 November 2008
D.H. and Others Tabled for Discussion One Year On
30 October 2008
19 September 2008
Rights Groups Press Czech Government on Roma Education
19 September 2008
Hundreds of Activists Support Campaign for Compensation for Coercively Sterilised Romani Women
15 July 2008
Compensation Now: Campaign on Coerced Sterilisation
03 July 2008
Support the Campaign of Romani Survivors of Coerced Sterilisation for Apologies and Compensation
03 July 2008
20 May 2008
18 June 2007
NGOs Send Letter of Concern about Adverse Remarks Made by Czech PM Regarding Equal Opportunities
11 April 2007
01 March 2007
UN Presses Czech Republic on Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women
04 September 2006
Czech Report on Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women Published in English Translation
14 March 2006
08 February 2006
Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women in the Czech Republic: Organisations Welcome Ombudsman Report
11 January 2006
05 October 2005
Forced Eviction Crisis in the Czech Republic
30 June 2005
09 May 2005
Human Rights Day: Time for Justice for Victims of Coercive Sterilisation in the Czech Republic
10 December 2004
Coercive Sterilisations in the Czech Republic
16 September 2004
16 February 2004
Roma Rights 3/2003: Personal Documents and Fundamental Rights
29 October 2003
UN Critical on Czech Efforts on Roma
02 April 2003
03 February 2003
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Reviews the Czech Republic
07 November 2002
07 November 2002
Roma Rights Summer University 2002
07 November 2002
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Reviews Czech Republic
30 April 2002
Recognising and Combating Racial Discrimination
04 September 2001
Разпознаване и Противопоставяне На Расовата Дискриминация
04 September 2001
Что Такое Расовая Дискриминация и Борьба Против Неё
04 September 2001
Recunoaşterea şi combaterea discriminării rasiale
04 September 2001
04 September 2001
Prepoznavanje Rasne Diskriminacije
04 September 2001
Prepoznavanje Rasne Diskriminacije i Borba Protiv Nje
04 September 2001
02 August 2001
UN to Scrutinise Czech Republics Human Rights Record
29 June 2001
Human rights in the case of the Roma
05 December 2000
Segregation in the Czech Republic
11 July 2000
The ERRC legal strategy to challenge racial segregation and discrimination in Czech schools
12 April 2000
Lawsuit filed by Czech counsel and ERRC Against Usti Wall
13 November 1999
29 October 1999
26 October 1999
ERRC Demands Effective Action in Halting Czech Apartheid
07 October 1999
15 July 1999
Roma Rights 2, 1999: Roma and the Kosovo Conflict
15 July 1999
Hrušov quarter, Ostrava, Czech Republic
03 April 1999
ERRC hosts family meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic
03 April 1999
03 April 1999
29 November 1998
Roma and the right to education - Roma in the educational systems of central and eastern Europe
10 September 1998
10 September 1998
"Everyone has the right to education": Article 26: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
10 September 1998
Roma Rights Summer 1998: Roma and the right to education
10 September 1998
10 September 1998
Czech government stirs as Roma flee the country
02 April 1998
02 March 1998
ERRC letter of appeal to Czech President Vaclav Havel
19 January 1998
19 November 1997
Activities: August - October 1997
07 November 1997
ERRC Statement at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe Hearing on
24 October 1997
15 August 1997
06 August 1997
Roma Rights, Summer 1997: Romani Holocaust
15 July 1997
11 July 1997
