ERRC: Contribution to CoE Meeting and CERD Submission Croatia

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ERRC: Contribution to PACE Meeting and CERD Submission
Croatia


Implementing Roma Rights in Europe: ERRC Contribution to Council of
Europe Meeting
Press Release, March 4, 2002

On March 4, 2002, the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) submitted
oral and written comments to a meeting on the "the legal situation of
Roma in Europe" of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The context of
the meeting was a reassessment of Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation 1203 (1993), adopted almost a decade ago. In an oral
presentation to meeting, ERRC Executive Director Dimitrina Petrova
welcomed the Parliamentary Assembly's initiative as an opportunity for
the Council of Europe to play a more active role in implementing Roma
rights. She additionally told the meeting that any new Parliamentary
Assembly recommendation adopted should emphasize human rights,
anti-discrimination and the struggle against racism as central to any
policies and/or laws addressing the situation of Roma in Europe. The
ERRC also submitted a 33-page written statement including concerns and
policy recommendations to those present at the meeting. The full text
of the ERRC submission is available on the Internet at:
http://errc.org/publications/legal/index.shtml . 

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ERRC Submits Written Comments Concerning the Republic of Croatia for
Consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination at its 60th Session

The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) has submitted written comments
on the situation of Roma in Croatia to the United Nations Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), for consideration by
that body during its March 6-7 review of Croatia's compliance with the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ICERD). The full text of the ERRC's submission is
available on the Internet at:
http://errc.org/publications/legal/index.shtml . 


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defence in cases of human rights abuse. For more information about the
European Roma Rights Center, visit the ERRC on the web at
http://www.errc.org. 

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