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UN rights expert: EU must do more to support Roma peoples
April 9, 2013 by Samuel Franklin
A UN rights expert on Monday urged EU member states to do more to ensure that Roma peoples receive the support necessary to fully enjoy all their basic human rights. As Monday was International Roma Day, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues Rita Izsak commended the international community for.... [more]
Rights group urges EU to end discrimination aginst Roma
April 4, 2013 by Daniel Mullen
Amnesty International (AI) called upon the European Union (EU) on Thursday to end discrimination against Roma communities throughout Europe. There are roughly six million Roma throughout the EU, many of whom face abject poverty, substandard education, violent attacks and other forms of.... [more]
Europe rights court condemns Hungary segregation of Roma students
January 31, 2013 by Addison Morris
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Hungary violated the European Convention on Human Rights by discriminating against Roma children and wrongly placing them in remedial schools. Istvan Horvath and Andras Kiss, two Roma men from the town of Nyiregyhaza, filed their claim.... [more]
Italy still discriminating against Roma: AI
September 12, 2012 by Sung Un Kim
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged Italy to change its discriminatory policies against the country's Roma. In its report, AI revealed that in the 10 months after the "Nomad Emergency" was deemed unlawful by the Council of State, the highest administrative court, discrimination against.... [more]
France protesters rallied against Sarkozy security measures [this day at law]
September 4, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On September 4, 2010, over 100,000 people protested against the security policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy. The protestors also called for the expulsion of illegal Roma communities and the bid by the French government to ban the wearing of the Muslim burqa. In August 2010, the UN Committee on.... [more]
AI: Hungary must do more to protect Roma communities
August 15, 2012 by Max Slater
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the government of Hungary to protect the nation's Roma communities from attacks. On August 5, violence erupted in the Hungarian village of Devecser when more than a thousand people gathered in the village square in a demonstration organized by the far-.... [more]
France evicts Roma from camps, country: HRW
August 12, 2012 by Jaimie Cremeans
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that French authorities raided two camps inhabited by Romanian Roma early Thursday morning and evicted all of the more than 200 residents, leaving them without homes. The same day, 240 Romanian Roma who had been previously evicted from camps were flown from France.... [more]
UN rights experts urge wider acceptance of Roma communities
August 3, 2012 by Dan Taglioli
Two independent UN human rights experts noted Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday by calling on the international community to find solutions to the persistent exclusion of Roma denizens from larger society in all countries. "Pharrajimos" is observed each August 2 in remembrance of the.... [more]
Moldova urged to adopt anti-discrimination law
May 13, 2012 by Keith Herting
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday implored the Moldovan government to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination law. The proposed law, in development since 2008, is seen as a large step forward for religious minorities, the Roma population and LGBT rights.... [more]
HRW urges Bosnia and Herzegovina to end discrimination against Roma
April 4, 2012 by Saheli Chakrabarty
Roma, Jews and Ukrainians in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) face exclusion from politics and public institutions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The report identified the 1995 Bosnian Constitution as the root of the discrimination against minority groups. The constitutional provisions.... [more]
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