Roma Rights: Spring 1997

10 April 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.

• Editorial

• Nationality: Roma Citizenship: Europe 

• Austria * Bulgaria * Croatia * Czech Republic * France * Germany * Greece * Hungary * Ukraine * Holocaust

• The Unnecessary Delay of Justice  (Case Report of the ERRC by Nikolai Gughinski)   

• Symposium Report Legal Defence of the Rights of Roma (Budapest, 11-14 January 1997)  

• I Came to the United States (Affidavit of S. N.) 

• We Were The Only Deserters Punished (A Rom from Albania Tells of Hazing in the Albanian Army)

• Maria lonescu: ERRC Legal Scholarship Recipient  

• Traces of Pogrom Past: Tatarbunary 

• Romani Woman Killed in Police Custody in Turkey  

• Field Report from Turkey to the Research Co-ordinator

• The Things Told to Foreigners: The Bizarre Conversation of the ERRC with the Romanian Authorities 

• Statement of the ERRC Concerning the Forced Return of Bosnian Roma from Germany  

• Activities November 1996 - March 1997