Racism in Europe: ENAR Shadow Report 2007 2008-12-01 · European Network Against Racism (ENAR) Extremism and racism are on the rise throughout Europe and racist political discourse is increasingly common in mainstream European politics, states this report by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). According to the data collected, there is "increasing evidence of public acceptance of racist crime and mistreatment of ethnic and religious minorities, including within the police and other relevant authorities". This edition, based on 25 country-specific Shadow Reports produced by ENAR members, presents the trends ...

The State of Media Freedom in Montenegro 2008-11-13 · OSCE The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFOM), Miklós Haraszti, visited Montenegro on 16-18 July 2008. He had been invited by the Minister of Culture, Sport and Media on behalf of the Government of Montenegro, in order to assess the current state of media freedom in the OSCE’s newest participating State. This report contains his observations and recommendations on how to further strengthen freedom of the media in Montenegro.

Address by Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 2008-11-06 · European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) This is an address by Louise Arbour, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Opening of the Judicial Year 2008 of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, 25 January 2008. This address appeared in the Roma Rights Quarterly of the European Roma Rights Centre. Among other cases that are brought before the European Court of Human Rights, Arbour talks about the case of the case of D.H. and Others v. ...

Ending Racial Segregation in Schools: The Promise of D.H. 2008-11-06 · European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) This editorial by James Goldston introduces the issue of Roma Rights Quarterly, European Roma Rights Centre’s (ERRC) bi-annual journal, that is devoted to the case of D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic. This case, also known as the Ostrava Case, was brought before the European Court of Human Rights by the ERRC. In this case, a group of Roma children were denied equal opportunities to education by being placed in ‘special classes’. Goldston was ...

Arrest the Precedent! Segregated Schooling in Contemporary Europe 2008-11-06 · European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) This article by Larry Olomoofe, that appeared in the European Roma Rights Centre’s Roma Rights Quarterly focuses over the issue of segregated schooling. It aims to explicate the social and political impact of the unprecedented European Court of Human Rights groundbreaking ruling of November 2007 in D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic (popularly referred to as “the Ostrava case”). The ruling was groundbreaking in legal terms due to the fact that it was the ...