Brussels, 25, March 2025: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) welcomes a significant settlement agreement reached in a case of systemic discrimination by a water company against Romani residents of the Banlozi camp, located near Zenica in Bosnia & Herzegovina. 

Brussels, 20 March 2025: A project to evict Romani residents from a segregated camp and rehouse them in new built, segregated social housing units using EU funding has been modified by the Region of Calabria following an intervention from the European Commission at the request of Roma Rights activists.

Brussels, Rome, 13 March 2025: Activists from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), with support from Associazione 21 luglio and the Comitato Campano con i Rom, have filed a collective complaint before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) urging the Committee to ensure that the Italian Government adopt immediate measures to prevent an imminent eviction of Romani families from a camp at Via Carrafiello in Giugliano, in Campania, in the province of Naples.

Bratislava, Brussels 28 February 2025: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Slovakia discriminated against a Romani pupil who was placed in a special class for children with mild intellectual disabilities. In the case of SALAY v. SLOVAKIA, where the applicant was represented by the ERRC, the court ruled that the pupil received an education which did not offer the necessary guarantees stemming from the positive obligations of the State to undo a history of racial segregation in special education.

Budapest, Brussels 14 February 2025 – Segregated kindergartens in Kalocsa, Hungary have been shut down and measures put in place to ensure integrated education for Romani children following an investigation and legal complaint by the Rosa Parks and Polgár Foundations, with support from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). The Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights - Ombudsperson for the Rights of National Minorities in Hungary brought a decision on 31 January 2025 against the head of the kindergartens in the city of Kalocsa and the municipality responsible for their administration.

Brussels, 27 January 2025: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found in favour of three Romani men, who were brutally beaten and tortured during their arrest, transfer and detention by Greek police back in October 2016, and awarded them a total of €52,240 in damages.

The ERRC maintains a record of every public announcement we have made to the press. These provide information on human rights violations and ERRC legal actions, research and publications, submissions to international and national human rights bodies, other advocacy actions and human rights education outcomes. The press releases are listed by year and in reverse chronological order; click on the title to read the full version.