European Roma Rights Centre

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Romani. The approach of the ERRC involves, in particular, strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and policy development, and training of Romani activists. The ERRC is a member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and has consultative status with the Council of Europe, as well as with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The organisation was created in 1996 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

The ERRC produced the report “Roma in an Enlarged European Union” which is one of the most influential policy documents on Roma to date, published by the Directorate General of Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission. The ERRC has influenced the European Union enlargement by pressuring candidate countries to comply with the Copenhagen criteria and ensuring that the Roma situation is a priority issue. The ERRC often reports to UN Committees such as the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) or the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) about the situation of Roma. The ERRC has both illuminated the Roma issue to the public and help with policy development, yet one of its most important functions is that is educates Roma activists about what courses of action they themselves have open and can take. The ERRC is also training Roma rights activists, which will be a great help in furthering the fight against discrimination.

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Albania: Romani people left without citizenship anywhere

Romano 20 Jun 2018

A by the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), and the Tirana Legal Aid Society (TLAS) finds that discrimination is subjecting Romani people to the danger of statelessness in Albania ... The ERRC has recently filed a case about this issue together with TLAS before the UN Human Rights Committee ... agw, ERRC press release. ....

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Greece: Man shoots dead 13-year-old Romani girl, allegedly over argument with her father

Romano 15 Jun 2018

The two men fled the scene on foot after that ... The ERRC has criticized the European media for taking little interest in the case and for failing to inform the public enough about it. The ERRC notes that compared to the publicity given a case several years ago about a blonde Romani girl in Greece who had allegedly been kidnapped by another Romani family, this murder case in Greece is not receiving anywhere near as much publicity ... ....

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Canada grants asylum to former MEP who faced death threats in Hungary due to her ...

Romano 16 May 2018

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) reported the news of her successful asylum application today ... Racist murder becomes an "accident" ... In the case of the murder of Robi Csorba of Tatárszentgyôrgy and his five-year-old son Robik, shot to death by neo-Nazis after fleeing their home when it was set on fire, she confronted police with the evidence she had discovered about the crime, according to the ERRC ... ....

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Ukraine: Violence against Romani people is escalating

Romano 14 May 2018

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) reports that more attacks have been perpetrated in Ukraine against Romani people ... This is not the first such brutal attack on Romani people in Ukraine this year. A previous one took place on 21 April, when members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group C14 set a Romani encampment in the center of Kiev on fire ... Managing director of the ERRC Adam Weiss commented on both attacks as follows ... ....

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BBC Three Documentary Exposes Human Rights Abuses In Hungary’s State-Care Homes

Romano 21 Apr 2018

“The children are in worse situations than their mothers.” ... The ERRC have called out Hungary for its overrepresentation of Romani children in the state care system for a while now, and have several cases involving Romani children in the system as well as our recent report on the issue ... The ERRC have also documented and/or litigated cases in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Albania .”. Laila El Agizy. ....

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Italian police forcibly evict yet another Roma camp

Romano 31 Mar 2018

One elderly woman remained in her home, only to be driven out by bulldozers ... Gianluca Vitale, a lawyer negotiating with the authorities in Beinasco, told the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) that most of the inhabitants left by the end of the next day ... According to the ERRC, only one child has been able to continue to attend school and is living with his family in a caravan ... Dorothy Carlos . ....

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Sex Abuse Claims Rock Macedonian Youth Centre

Balkan Insight 20 Feb 2018

Sinisa Jakov Marusic ... This case hit the public last Thursday when an international Roma rights organization, the European Roma Rights Centre, ERRC urged the authorities to react. The ERRC said the girl known only as R.I ... “According to testimony she gave to an ERRC human rights monitor, R.I ... She managed to escape after 30 days and get a bus back to Skopje where the police found her in Bitpazar market,” an ERRC statement said ... ....

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CritComm Insights Releases U.S. Public Safety DAS Landscape Study

Market Watch 01 Dec 2017

Owners that meet fire code emergency responder radio coverage (ERRC) requirements today and gain an essential certificate of occupancy may find new requirements appearing in the future ... The difference is stark and can trigger requirements for significant upgrades to in-building ERRC systems in previously approved structures ... demands for ERRC systems....

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Slovak Police charge four eyewitnesses to raid on Romani settlement with making false accusations

Romano 12 Sep 2017

Several officers attacked children using their truncheons and one brutally pushed an elderly woman to the ground. The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) published video footage of the brutal intervention taken by an eyewitness. Romani politician Peter Pollák, the former Rapporteur to the Government of the Slovak Republic on ......

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Over 100 swimmers rescued in Blue Lagoon today - Emergency Response & Rescue Corps

Independent Online 15 Jul 2017

The Emergency Response & Rescue Corps (ERRC) said in a satatement that over a hundred swimmers had to be rescued today at Blue Lagoon. The ERRC together with the MTA would like to reassure the public that swimming at ......

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Polish man dies after getting into difficulty while swimming in Comino

The Malta Independent 30 Jun 2017

Members of the ERRC- 'Emergency Response & Rescue Corps' were also on site and attempted to assist ... ADVERTISEMENT ....

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Macedonian Govt settles out of court with Romani family as Romani deaths in prisons keep happening

Romano 19 Jun 2017

According to the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), based in Budapest, the Government has “agreed to pay € 9000 in compensation to the family of a Romani man who died in suspicious circumstances in prison.” ... says the ERRC ... The ERRC reports that another three deaths of Romani prisoners have occurred in Macedonia this year ... the ERRC reports....

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Commentary: The value of life in Central Europe depends on skin color

Romano 17 Jun 2017

The feeling that anything at all can be done to Romani people with impunity has long been sustained in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other countries of our region by the approach taken by state bodies and institutions ... Some Romani residents filmed the intervention but, probably because of such threats, it was not released until the end of May by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in an online article featuring the footage ... t ... ....

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