ERRC Winter 1998 Newsletter
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ERRC Winter 1998 Newsletter
Contents of the European Roma Rights Center Winter 1998 Newsletter:
- Editorial: Dialogue with the Police? by Dimitrina Petrova
- Meet the ERRC: One of these Days by Claude Cahn
- Snapshots from around Europe: Ombudsman criticises education policy
for Hungary's ethnic minorities * Racist violence against Roma
continues in the Czech Republic * Czech government stirs as Roma flee
the country * Hungary debates introducing minority seats in parliament
* State of the nation: half of Hungary averse to Roma, abuses on-going
* Community tensions in Romania * Book published in memory of Romani
victim of racially motivated killing in Yugoslavia * German pubs
advertise horsemeat to keep away Sinti * Poland slapped by United
Nations discrimination committee * Romani man killed by game warden in
northeastern Hungary * Anti-Roma protests in Croatia, Slovenia, Spain
* Developments in Romani Holocaust politics * Continuing physical
abuse of Roma in Bulgaria * Attempt to move Roma sparks civil rights
activity, anti-Roma backlash in Hungary * Anti-Roma violence breaks
out in Fejer County as Szekesfehervar events unfold * Arson to evict a
Romani woman in Romania * Slovak officials criticise ERRC report *
Czech Senate appeals to Justice Minister to act in Tibor Danihel case
* More police abuse in Pisek, Czech Republic * Greek Roma settlements:
police raids, inhuman conditions * Abuse of Roma reported in the
Russian press * UK judge protests detention of male Romani refugees *
Swedish appeals court finds two shop-owners guilty of ethnic
discrimination against Romani woman * Berlin court rules to deport
Republika Srpska Roma * Austrian Constitutional Court orders
administrative court to rule on police brutality case * Jevg families
sue Albanian municipality and police * Official anti-Roma racism from
Russia on the Internet
- Notebook: Special Focus: Police Violence against Roma
Down by law: Police Abuse of Roma in Italy by Piero Colacicchi
- Roma-Police Seminars in Bulgaria: ERRC partner organisation the
Human Rights Project has held a series of round-table discussions
between Roma and the police. Savelina Danova describes their
successes, failures and lessons.
- Legal Defence: Szekesfehervar in perspective: Roma and housing in
Hungary by Csilla Der and Betty Eberle
- Law and Practice in International and Domestic Courts by James
Goldston
- Litigating Cases on Behalf of Roma Before the Court and Commission
in Strasbourg by Luke Clements
- Advocacy:
Letter to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel
Letter to General Prosecutor of Moldova Dumitru Harlampii Postovan
- Testimony:
"Here the Law is 'Fear the Police'"
Roma in Macedonia and Yugoslavia testify about instances of police
brutality.
- Field report:
"Wish You Weren't Here"
The response of the British press to Romani asylum seekers by Lucie
Roberts
Britain and France
The ERRC travelled to Britain with Czech and Slovak activists during
the media hype surrounding Romani asylum seekers there. David Chirico
tells what happened.
- Grants, scholarships, training
- Grant guidelines
- Grant guidelines (in Romani)
- Jobs at the ERRC
- Chronicle
The ERRC newsletter can be found, along with all ERRC publications, on
the ERRC website: http://www.errc.com
Copies are available from: [email protected]
Or by writing to:
European Roma Rights Center
H-1525 Budapest 114
PO Box 10/24
Hungary
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European Roma Rights Center
P.O.Box 10/24
1525 Budapest
Hungary
Phone: + (36 1) 327-98-77
Fax: + (36-1) 138-37-27
Board of Directors :
Andras Biro, Chair (Hungary)
Isabel Fonseca (UK)
Nicolae Gheorghe (Romania)
Deborah Harding (USA)
Rudko Kawczynski (Germany)
Khristo Kyuchukov (Bulgaria)
Lord Lester of Herne Hill Q. C. (UK)
Edgar Morin (France)
Ina Zoon (Spain)
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