Roma Rights: Autumn 1997

07 November 1997

The ERRC acts to promote better understanding of specific problems with which Romani people in various social and cultural environments are faced. We insist that the Roma are endowed with universal human rights and have to be respected and treated equally without discrimination. The ERRC seeks to advance the rights and freedoms of the Romani people not because they may contribute in an exotic way Co European cultures, nor because they may be skilled musicians or story-tellers, but because they are bearers of the universal potential of development as human beings, born equal and free, but denied equality and freedom in today's Europe.
 

• On representation (Dimitrina Petrova)

• Arson in Bolitin Deal (Isabel Fonseca)

• Albania - Austria - Bulgaria - Czech Republic - France - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Macedonia - Poland - Portugal - Slovakia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine - Yugoslavia

• Legislating ruin (Macedonia's Law on Commerce and the police violence that followed by Claude Cahn)

• The long, hot Czech summer (The panic that Czech Roma will go to Canada by David Chirico)

• Commemoration of Roma interned during World War II (A speech by Romani activist Jana Horváthová at an August 17 memorial event warning against passivity during the present wave of racism and racist attacks)

• ERRC files brief at Czech Supreme Court to challenge erroneous District Court deicision (James A. Goldston and Nikoali Gughinski)

• Local apartheid in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary (Csilla Dér)

• Letter to the General Prosecutor of Bulgaria

• You're lucky you are at home (Testimony by Romani prostitutes in Hajdúhadház, eastern Hungary)

• Italy (Veronika Leila Szente)

• Sensitising a younger generation (Roma rights workshop in Romania by Nidhi Trehan) 

• ERRC Legal Scholarship recipient: László Fórika 

• August-October 1997