Central Europe Roma Rights News

Last week the Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner participated in a round … the European Roma Rights Centre and Claude Cahn, a human rights adviser from … their consent were not only Romani, but were, for example, women …

… In Its Efforts to Integrate Roma, Slovakia Recalls U.S. Struggles” ( … of a Roma son, adopted in 1991, and human rights lawyer, … conditions under which most Roma live today in such … , Germany, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Former Secretary of …

… In Its Efforts to Integrate Roma, Slovakia Recalls U.S. Struggles” ( … of a Roma son, adopted in 1991, and human rights lawyer, … conditions under which most Roma live today in such … , Germany, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Former Secretary of …

… gypsy”, stating that the word is used colloquially, even by Roma … Human rights watchdogs express their dismay Non-governmental human rights watchdogs, including the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Slovakia …

Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková … Roma who were forcibly interned in the so-called “gypsy … would officially acknowledge that Romani people, just like … the Czech Republic have acknowledged the indirect discrimination of Romani …

… . ambassador Norman Eisen and the Czech government human rights commissioner Monika Simunkova, among … some 90 percent of Czech Roma. Only 600 Roma inmates returned from Nazi-operated … ČTK is expressly forbidden. The Prague Daily Monitor and Monitor CE …

Hungary’s three-year-old government is clamping down on media freedom, undermining human rights … Hungary’s new constitution contains provisions that discriminate … that blame Hungary’s Jewish and Roma … Budapest organization that documents hate crimes in Hungary …

… Jewish Congress met in Budapest, Hungary, on May 7, as … openly villainized Roma living in Hungary and accuses Hungarian Jews of … an affiliated militia, the Hungarian Guard, march in uniforms … begin to leave Hungary if the discrimination continues. Survey Says …

… Ondřej Slačálek of Prague, Míra Brož of … said. Czech Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková represented the Czech Government … dismal situation for Romani people in the Czech Republic … Czech Roma during the war. The Committee for the Redress of the Roma …

… on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said in a report … .1 percent of all Roma children in Slovakia aged seven to 15 … children from high-risk families would discriminate against children from the majority …

… PRAGUE, May 4 2013 (IPS) - As the Czech … Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The discrimination ranges from overt segregation where Roma … Human Rights as being widespread – because of systemically flawed and discriminatory … to ending discrimination under …

… the situation of Romani people in Slovakia, it is more … s behavior discriminatory. By creating classes in which Romani … Any other arrangement is discriminatory. This was reportedly … and Human Rights (PPOĽP), which reasoned that pupils of Romani ethnicity …

… Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Macedonia. There are also Roma … energetic band of civil rights activists and … Vanda Durbakova, a Slovak civil rights lawyer, filed a … contributed reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. This article …

… Center for Citizenship/Civic and Human Rights (Poradna pro občanství/Občanská a … separation were Slovaks who had moved from Slovakia to the Czech Republic when … of the Slovak Republic. This category included thousands of Romani people who …

… care services and entrenched discriminatory attitudes towards women … homeless; or in Slovenia, where many Roma families living … the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Despite this significant step … Universal Declaration of Human Rights demands no less. …

… Stephen Morgan. Budapest - Hundreds of Hungarian anti-Semites gathered in Budapest yesterday … in attacks and discrimination against the large Roma or gypsy population. Speakers … to drown. Hungary still has the largest Jewish community in Central Europe. …

… 200 people, most of them Romani, were living at the time … refuse to move out. •    Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková charges the … Statewide Association of Romani People of the Czech Republic (Celostátní asociace Romů …

… minorities such as the Roma," World Jewish Congress … SYMPTOM" Jewish and human rights groups say anti-Semitism … Hungary, told Reuters. Nevertheless, Feldmajer, speaking in his office near Budapest … by Christian Lowe in Warsaw; Editing by Alistair Lyon …

… Budapest) – The April … landmark opportunity to improve human rights protection in both countries … and Balkans researcher at Human Rights Watch. “With commitment … discrimination in housing, education, and employment, and Roma in Serbia experience discrimination …

… turning up pressure on human rights activists, decrying what it … ." In its annual human rights report, the State Department … racist political parties in Hungary and Greece. Many of … launched political attacks on Gypsies and Muslim immigrants. Even …