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The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international public interest law organisation working to combat antigypsyism and human rights abuses of Roma through strategic litigation, advocacy, media work, and human rights education.
If you're going to use today to 'thank the women in your life', thank us for fighting for fundamental rights, now and always. Full article here: www.errc.org/news/from-pe... #iwd2026 #romarights #womensrights
Also in November 2025, fans of ProstΔjov's ice hockey team were recorded marching through the streets of HodonΓn chanting βThe corpse of a g*psy floats on the water as nature intended.β With public attitudes like this, it's no wonder many Romani kids don't play sports: www.errc.org/news/czech-p...
We have requested information from the police in Zrenjanin on the disappearance & death of 19-year-old Manuel Ametov based on concerns that his Romani ethnicity & disability had an adverse effect on the institutional response to his disappearance. Read more here: www.errc.org/news/would-t...
For now, the prosecutor's case against the BΕ±nvadΓ‘szok (Crime Hunters) is in its early stages. AndrΓ‘s Bartal remains a Mi HazΓ‘nk municipal representative. There is no indication that police have taken any preventive action to stop further vigilante operations. Read more: www.errc.org/news/roma-ta...
17 years ago today, five-year-old Robika Csorba and his father Robert were gunned down by neo-Nazis as they fled their burning home in TatΓ‘rszentgyΓΆrgy, Hungary. More here: www.errc.org/news/never-a...
For Mother Language Day, we've created this dialect tree to show Romani in all its wonderful complexity. Romani is a European language. Like us, it has existed on this continent for more than half a millennium. Higher resolution version available here: www.errc.org/uploads/uplo...
In Romania, #romaslavery did not simply end. The exclusion, racialised poverty, & large-scale state violence that many Roma live with today are the long shadow of a system that once defined Romani people as property & treated their freedom as conditional and negotiable. www.errc.org/news/170-yea....
The annual βDay of Honourβ in Budapest provides a stark reminder that we are witnessing nothing less than the normalisation of fascism in 21st Century Europe. Full article here: www.errc.org/news/budapes...
Baht thaj baht, Δestitam, congratulations and solidarity βπ½ to Marko and Sandra for finally getting justice against the Serbian police. As activists we take the wins when we get them, and this judgment is good news for Roma fighting police racism everywhere! PRESS RELEASE www.errc.org/press-releas...
Prosecuting lawyers at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, called for 45 yearsβ imprisonment for Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders, for crimes against Serb and Romani civilians. Read more here π www.errc.org/news/hague-p...
In July 2022, Hasib Omerovic, a disabled Romani man, allegedly βfellβ from a second-floor window during a violent police raid on his home in the Primavalle district of Rome. Now, two officers have been sentenced, one acquitted, and another awaits trial.
More here π www.errc.org/news/they-th...
After a grim 2025, and looking to a 2026 where the far-right are in the ascendancy, the only collective solution lies in anti-racism. As Angela Davis said βIn a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.β
Full news review of 2025 here π www.errc.org/news/look-ba...
Antifascism, in 2026 and always, is a Roma Rights issue #freeallantifas #freemaja #antifascistaction #romarights
Full article here: www.errc.org/news/showtri...
The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes the Ombudsmanβs finding that residency and birth registration requirements for Roma, Ashkali, & Egyptian communities in #Montenegro are discriminatory, and must be reformed with immediate effect. More in our press release π www.errc.org/press-releas...
The political lines have been drawn, and the crusading intent of the far-right is clear. In the face of imminent barbarism, the starting point of resistance must be that human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Full article here: www.errc.org/news/italian...
#RomaRights
The message is clear: 'work-fare' for the Roma & others who are treated as an 'underclass', meanwhile tax breaks for the middle-class. Roma are citizens, not just some rainy-day demographic investment for European countries to be pitted against other marginalised people. www.errc.org/news/cleanin...
Take some time to look at their faces, read their names, remember their stories. At a time when fascists once again occupy the corridors of power, the words 'never again' seem a little hollow. Today we remember those who were murdered, tomorrow we organise βπ½
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Full solidarity with the family and their lawyerβπΎFull story here www.errc.org/news/serbia-...
We have documented & taken legal action in numerous cases going back decades where grown adults (including police) have violently & racially abused children in #Serbia
#romarights #kragujevac #hatecrime
Residents say that is not the first such attack, nor the first time the police have failed to respond to emergency calls. ERRC lawyer Andrea Δolak points to the police failure to consider violence a hate crime as indicative of a wider problem in Serbian law enforcement. www.errc.org/news/masked-...
Viktor OrbΓ‘n shows us the logic of racists when they implement the so-called 'economic argument for Roma inclusion' - state intervention for the middle class, and work-fare for Roma. #RomaRights #HungarianPolitics #SocialRights Full article from Bernard Rorke here: www.errc.org/news/shamele...
A large percentage of those in children's homes in #Hungary are Roma who have been removed from their families, often illegally for reasons of poverty, on a systemic scale only to be placed in institutions where they risk being physically and sexually abused ππ½ www.errc.org/news/no-safe...
Our Roma Rights Network is home to 30+ human rights organisations working to fight antigypsyism.
History has shown that hard times make for good activists. Now more than ever, we think Europe needs strong human rights defenders to come together in solidarity. Apply π www.errc.org/press-releas...
Repeated attempts to circumvent the Czech President's refusal to nominate "Nazi adoring" Filip Turek as environment minister speaks to the creeping normalisation of neo-fascism & #antigypsyism in #Czechia. Find out more: www.errc.org/news/the-new... #filipturek #nopasaran #romarights
"Art without activism is only decoration" says ERRC President ΔorΔe JovanoviΔ in his article celebrating the RoMagic LGBTQI+ Roma project as a necessary intervention challenging antigypsyism & homophobia ππΎ www.errc.org/news/our-exi....
The far-right drift in the #czechrepublic has led to #RomaRights activists resigning from the government's advisory body on Roma issues. We spoke with @4-gwen.bsky.social ky.social about her decision to resign, and the anti-democratic lurch to the right in #czechia
www.errc.org/news/czech-r...
The ERRC and MYLA welcome the final judgment of 20 November 2025 from the Court of Appeal in Skopje which has fully upheld the first-instance ruling in a landmark case marking a major step to safeguard the rights of unregistered persons, particularly Roma, in North Macedonia. shorturl.at/wlv29
π΄βΌοΈFrom a Prime Minister who describes Hungary as the "country of the natives" and proclaims Hungarians "do not want to become a people of mixed race.β βΌοΈπ΄
Judit IgnΓ‘cz argues that Viktor OrbΓ‘n is increasingly reading from the same fascist playbook as Trump. Read more: www.errc.org/news/hungary...
π£ERRCβs Census of Forced Evictions of Roma in Italy (2021β2025) shows forced evictions have become routine: 129+ evictions, at least 696 people affected. Data gaps and anti-Roma hate speech reveal a wider, normalised injustice. πhttps://shorturl.at/E8XlM
π New Report - Relocation without rights in Turkey: the impact of urban transformation on BaΔlarbaΕΔ±'s Romani residents π shorturl.at/eMbAX
π³οΈβπOur exhibition RoMagic: Proudly Queer. Unapologetically Roma is in Belgrade until 20 December! After Brussels and Bucharest, this is our final stop of the year. :rainbow: From 10β20 December, weβre bringing the stories of queer Roma into the spotlight once again.