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The latest issue of ROMA RIGHTS on Internet


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The latest  issue of the ERRC newsletter ROMA RIGHTS is now available
on the Internet!
 
To go directly to the newsletter, please point your browser to
http://errc.org/romarights/
 
The Internet edition  features:
 
EDITORIAL
Roma rights litigation
- Dimitrina Petrova
 
SNAPSHOTS FROM AROUND EUROPE
January:
- Romani Holocaust developments in Germany, Croatia and the Czech
Republic
- Racially motivated violence on the rise in the Czech Republic
December:
- Roma from Kosovo victimized in the Serb-Albanian ethnic conflict
- Hungarian court rules against segregation
- Neighbourly violence in Hungary
November:
- Election fever in Slovakia
- Roma deported from Poland
- Czech Romani MP barred from entering a disco
- The aftermath of the summer floods in Jarovnice, Slovakia
- Floods in Ukraine leave hundreds of Roma homeless
- Election fever in Macedonia
October:
- Another Romani man beaten by police in Kocani, Eastern Macedonia
- Romanian Roma seek asylum in Ireland
- Repatriation of Roma to Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Yugoslav Roma asking for national minority status
- Roma, asylum, and the visa war
- Central Russia: police raid on Romani family
- Round table on the Roma question in Bulgaria in 1999
- Roma from Romania seeking asylum in Hungary
- Hungarian Ministry of Justice plans laws against discrimination at
the workplace
September:
- Police in Ukraine have yet to learn about human rights
- Skinheads burn down family home in Bytom, Poland
- New halting sites law for Irish Travellers
July:
- Police beat four Roma near Ciechocinek, Poland
- Debate over ethnological study in Sweden draws public attention
- Police violence in Macedonian markets
- Swedish government considers adhering to the European Framework
Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
- Nobody wants to adopt Romani children
 
NOTEBOOK
Race discrimination litigation in Europe: problems and prospects
- James A. Goldston
Court decisions on four cases
Community violence against Roma in Montenegro and the inactivity of
the state
- Branimir Plese
 
ADVOCACY
The United Nations CAT scrutinizes Hungary and Yugoslavia
- Veronika Leila Szente
We have hundreds of "symbolic" laws ...
- Istv�n Fenyvesi interviews Istv�n Haller
Letter to the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom
Letter to the Minister of the Interior and the General Prosecutor of
Slovakia
 
CONFERENCES
Seminar on human rights litigation
- Branimir Plese
 
FIELD REPORT
Primary education of Roma: the case of Hidas, Hungary, 1998
- Alison Pickup and Vikt�ria Moh�csi
 
MEET THE ERRC
Creative human rights litigation
- Branimir Plese
 
grants awarded
 
chronicle
 
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Also on the ERRC website   http://errc.org/
 
Other publications of the ERRC:
* Reports on Roma situation by country
* ERRC letters of appeal to governments and other authorities
* Law-based submissions to inter-governmental organs
* Legal submissions to domestic and international courts of law
 
Guidelines for grants available from the ERRC
 
Collection of links to other web sites (you are welcome to post your
link)
 
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