ERRC Roma Rights, Number 1, 1999
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ERRC Roma Rights, Number 1, 1999
Contents of European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) newsletter Roma Rights,
Number 1, 1999
Roma Rights, Number 1, 1999 is now on the ERRC Internet website at:
errc.org
Contents:
Editorial: The other refugees, Dimitrina Petrova
Snapshots from around Europe:
- Roma and the Kosovo conflict
- Bulgarian Roma rights organisation scores political victory
- Abuse of Roma by officials in the Czech Republic
- UN Committee rebukes Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy and
Portugal for treatment of Roma
- Romani Holocaust update: Croatia and Germany
- Forced migration of Roma from eastern Slavonia, Croatia
- Police retaliation against Roma in tip, Macedonia
- Oberwart bomber sentenced in Austria
- Abuse of Roma by officials in Slovakia
- Anti-Traveller discrimination and hate speech on trial in Ireland
- Reduced sentence in racist killing in Czech Republic
- Local government in Hungary taken to court by Roma
- Court sentences skinheads charged with arson in Hungary
- Romani settlement in Spain becomes national controversy
- Abuse of Roma by police and municipal authorities in Greece
- Roma barred from clubs and restaurants in the Czech Republic and
Hungary
- Racially motivated violence against Romani asylum seekers in England
- Romani organisations join united activity against right-wing
campaign in Germany
- National Gypsy Minority Self-Government elections in Hungary
- Appeal court hands down verdict in Hadareni case, Romania
- First Romani police officers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Greece: charges brought against policemen for abuse of Roma in
detention
- Municipal authorities block settlement of Roma in Slovakia
- Ombudsman investigates discrimination in employment in Hungary
- Roma in Abkhazia
Notebook:
Roma and the Treaty of Amsterdam: safe European home?, Tanja
Koch-Baerman
Roma and propiska in Ukraine, Evgenija Navrotskaja
Roma Community and Advocacy Centre protests, Ronald Lee
Legal defence:
Roma and forced migration: lessons of recent Canadian cases, Arthur C.
Helton
Disparate impact: removing Roma from the Czech Republic, Beata
Struharova
Strasbourg application charges Slovak towns with racial discrimination
against Roma, James A. Goldston
Advocacy:
ERRC letter to the Chief Prosecutor of Greece concerning the
destruction of Romani dwellings
UN Committee reviews Italy's compliance with international human
rights standards, Veronika Leila Szente
Field report:
Denial of basic rights: the marginalisation of Romani refugees in
France, Alison Pickup
Testimony
We came from one kind of fear to another: Czech and Slovak Romani
refugees speak
Community education
ERRC hosts family meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Claude Cahn
Meet the ERRC: "Love thy neighbour", Deborah Winterbourne
And:
Grants awarded
ERRC scholarship recipients
ERRC grant applications
ERRC grant applications in Romani
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC)
P.O.Box 10/24
1525 Budapest 114
Hungary
Phone: (36 1) 42 82 351
Fax: (36-1) 42 82 356
The European Roma Rights Center is dependent upon the generosity of
individual donors for its continued existence. If you believe the ERRC
performs a service valuabel to the public, please join in enabling its
future with a contribution. Gifts of all sizes are welcome, bank
transfers to the ERRC account are preferred. Please send your
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99P00402686
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Board of directors :
Nicolae Gheorghe (Romania) (co-chair) Lord Lester of Herne Hill
Q.C.(UK) (co-chair) Isabel Fonseca (UK) Gabor Halmai (Hungary) Deborah
Harding (USA) Monika Horakova (Czech Republic) Khristo Kyuchukov
(Bulgaria) Eva Ors=F3s (Hungary) Rumyan Russinov (Bulgaria) Joseph
Schull (Canada) Ina Zoon (Spain)
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