The project, implemented by the ERRC in partnership with the Rosa Parks Foundation, aims to increase Romani people’s access to justice and empower Romani communities to challenge the inequality and discrimination they face.

Introduction For years, the ERRC has been documenting hate crime and hate speech in various countries. With support from the Open Society Initiative for Europe, the ERRC is carrying out a project designed to expose the extent of anti-Roma hate crime and hate speech in France and Italy and improve the authorities' response to these problems. The purpose of this project is to introduce a new methodology for this work and apply it in these two Western European countries, where the extent of anti-Roma hate speech and hate crime is largely recognised, but poorly documented or addressed. 

Introduction For years, the ERRC has been documenting hate crime and hate speech in various countries. With support from the Open Society Initiative for Europe, the ERRC is carrying out a project designed to expose the extent of anti-Roma hate crime and hate speech in France and Italy and improve the authorities' response to these problems. The purpose of this project is to introduce a new methodology for this work and apply it in these two Western European countries, where the extent of anti-Roma hate speech and hate crime is largely recognised, but poorly documented or addressed. 

The UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture is again supporting the ERRC to provide legal services to Roma victims of torture in Europe. This year, the ERRC has been and will continue to focus on victims of torture inflicted mainly by police in Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, and Slovakia.

Romani CRISS, in partnership with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Greek Helsinki Monitor, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Life Together and Integro Association Bulgaria, is launching the DARE-Net project: Desegregation and Action for Roma in Education-Network.

Through this project, the ERRC provides direct legal assistance to Romani victims of torture and members of their families in various countries. In 2012, the ERRC will provide such direct legal assistance in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

The ERRC is a consultant to a two-year project implemented by Transitions Online, the  Foundation Mediacenter for Media and Civil Society, the Kali Sara Roma Information Center, the