For Roma families in Montenegro, no ID means no doctor, no work, no school. 🛑 New reforms aim to break this "vicious cycle" of statelessness, but promises mean nothing without execution. Until an ID is in hand, the cycle continues.
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"Humiliation, injustice, and resentment."
That’s the reality for many Romani families in Hungary, according to a new Council of Europe opinion detailing systemic police abuse. Get the full story from Bernard Rorke here: www.errc.org/news/16-year...
#8April calls for real solidarity. For too long, many of our comrades have been selective in their solidarity for other racialized & minority groups. If we expect others to stand up for us, we must do the same for them. The far-right is not someone else's emergency 👉 www.errc.org/news/interna...
A new investigative documentary has sent shock waves across Hungary. The filmmakers found that the system of voter manipulation & intimidation by the regime's fixers now extends beyond the Romani population, with 500,000 voters being targeted across 53 constituencies!
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Congratulations to Helena and Katarina ✊ www.errc.org/press-releas...
As election day draws near in Hungary, many Roma rights activists have taken to social media to warn voters not to succumb to bribes or threats from the regime. When it comes to racist contempt for Romani citizens, it is clear that Fidesz and Mi Hazánk are in lockstep www.errc.org/news/stoking...
Concerns over Tomio Okamura are shared by many, not least the 250K protestors that took to the streets to defend Czech democracy. Former politician & renowned economist, Ivan Pilip said “In my view, his nomination is the worst event since 1989. He is a hateful racist…” www.errc.org/news/huge-cr...
The Hungarian law described as 'apartheid-by-stealth', which allows municipalities to choose who may move into an area and who may not, has lead to more than 130 'identity decrees' across the country since last year. Full story here: www.errc.org/news/hungari...
This is the 1st new 'nomad camp' to be announced for construction in Italy for 12 years. In 2019, the Government convinced @ec.europa.eu that segregated camps for Roma & Sinti were over. Does this new camp mark the return to the era of segregated, municipal camps? 👉 www.errc.org/news/italy-w...
After an embarrassing retreat from the small village of Kálló, the far-right #MiHazánk party branded their failed attempt as an attack on their representatives by an armed group despite no evidence existing that anyone was armed at the scene or carried out violent acts 👉 www.errc.org/news/far-rig...
“This decision is the outcome of years of ERRC litigation and advocacy to expose the discriminatory practices used to deny Macedonian Roma their most basic right - the freedom to leave their own country” - ERRC Legal Director Senada Sali. Read the full press release here www.errc.org/press-releas...
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 Prostějov's ice hockey team were recorded marching through the streets of Hodonín chanting “The corpse of a g*psy floats on the water as nature intended.” 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 Bűnvadászok (Crime Hunters) is in its early stages. András Bartal remains a Mi Hazánk 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 Tatárszentgyörgy, 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 ‘Day of Honour’ 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, čestitam, congratulations and solidarity ✊🏽 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 years’ imprisonment for Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders, for crimes against Serb and Romani civilians. Read more here 👉 www.errc.org/news/hague-p...
In July 2022, Hasib Omerovic, a disabled Romani man, allegedly ‘fell’ 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 👉 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 “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
Full news review of 2025 here 👉 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 Ombudsman’s 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 👉 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 ✊🏽
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Full solidarity with the family and their lawyer✊🏾Full 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 Čolak 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-...