Roma Rights 4, 2000: Racism: denial and acknowledgement

05 December 2000

The ERRC works to end racism. We “fight” racism, to use the clumsy metaphor. In doing so, we tilt at shadows, aiming to bring to an end phenomena hard to grasp and actions the symbolic content of which is frequently disputed. We are joined in this “struggle” by the Czech Republic, which, like all other European states with the exception of Andorra, Ireland and Turkey, has converted the commitment to end racism to legal obligation by ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In this work, either states aspire to real race-blindness in their own affairs and abandon documenting race once and for all; or states engage to determine discriminatory patterns by gathering data to use in the service of ending discriminatory practices. Lying about the existence of registries, however, stinks.

• Liars (Claude Cahn) 

• Belgium * Bosnia and Herzegovina * Bulgaria * Croatia * Czech Republic * Greece * Hungary * Italy * Kosovo * Macedonia * Romania * Russia * Slovakia * Spain * Yugoslavia 

• Racism: denial and acknowledgement 

• The denial of racism (Dimitrina Petrova) 

• After the deep freeze: ethnicity, minorities and tolerance in the new East and Central Europe (Konstanty Gebert) 

• Romani political participation and racism: reflections on recent developments in Hungary and Slovakia (Peter Vermeersch) 

• Institutional racism: lessons from the U.K. (Robin Oakley) 

• Racial discrimination and the protection of minorities: recommended government actions  (James A. Goldston)

• Gypsy hunt in Switzerland: long pursuit of racial purity (Laurence Jourdan)  

• The penumbra of race  (Gioia Maiellano)

• World conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance 

• Protecting Romani refugees around Europe: a position paper by the European Roma Rights Center  

• Current internships and externships with the ERRC 

• Maškarthemutni konvencia kontra e rasno diskriminacia (Romani language version of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination)

• Anna Červenáková (Human rights in the case of the Roma) 

• Chronicle