International Roma Day, and Every Other Day Sees Roma Fighting Back Against Forced Evictions. And They’ll Win

On behalf of the ERRC I would like to express our solidarity with all Roma and all those who struggle for Roma rights on International Roma Day! As we celebrate Romani culture and identity and the history of our struggle against discrimination, spare a thought for the hundreds of thousands of Roma facing eviction from their homes who see no cause for celebration on thi ...

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In Second Emergency Order in a Week, European Court Temporarily Halts Eviction of Roma

Budapest, 31 March 2016: The European Court of Human Rights has told the Romanian Government to stop the threatened eviction of a Roma community. This would have been the third in a series of evictions that started in 2013, and has seen the community taken out of the heart of an integrated neighbourhood to containers on the outskirts of town. The Court ...

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European Court issues emergency measure to stop Italy from evicting Roma family

Rome, Budapest, 25 March 2016: A disabled Romani woman and her daughter stopped their eviction by getting the European Court of Human Rights to issue an emergency measure moments before closing for the holiday weekend. The women, who have lived with other family members for years in a “temporary” segregated, Roma-only shelter run by the City of Rom ...

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France on a Collision Course with Europe Over its Evictions Policy

Budapest, 18 March 2016: Since the beginning of the year 2,582 Roma have been forcibly evicted in France: that’s almost 300 each week. These evictions are conducted contrary to France’s own standards, as well as France’s European and international human rights obligations, setting France on a collision course with the European Commission, the Eur ...

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ERRC submission to the European Commission on the EU Roma Framework (February 2016)

19 February 2016

Written comments by the ERRC to the European Commission on progress in 2015 with the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS).

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ERRC submission to UN CEDAW on the Czech Republic (January 2016)

22 January 2016

Written Comments of the European Roma Rights Centre concerning the Czech Republic to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women at the 63th session (23 February 2016). 

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Combating Hate Crime and Hate Speech in France and Italy

4 February 2016

Introduction

For years, the ERRC has been documenting hate crime and hate speech in various countries. With support from the Open Society Initiative for Europe, the ERRC is carrying out a project designed to expose the extent of anti-Roma hate crime and hate speech in France and Italy and improve the authorities' response to these problems. The purpose of this project is to introduce a new methodology for this work and apply it in these two Western European countries, where the extent of anti-Roma hate speech and hate crime is largely recognised, but poorly documented or addressed. 

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