News Roundup: Snapshots From Around Europe
News Roundup: Snapshots From Around Europe

Summary/Abstract: The pages that follow include Roma rights news and recent developments in the following areas: - Physical abuse and other inhuman and degrading treatment by police and other officials in Serbia and Montenegro and Ukraine; - Racial attacks and harassment by skinheads and others in Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro and Ukraine; - Death of Roma following substandard medical care in Bulgaria; other access to adequate medical care issues in Hungary; and publication of a report on health status of Gypsy/Travellers in the United Kingdom; - Forced evictions, and planned evictions, in Albania, Greece, Lithuania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia and the United Kingdom; ERRC complaint concerning housing rights in Italy before the Revised European Social Charter found admissible; and other issues related to the right to adequate housing and freedom of movement in Bulgaria, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine; - Italian Court finds right-wing political party members guilty of incitement to discriminatory acts in Sinti case; Access to justice issues in Russia; Slovak Minister challenges legality of special measures; United Kingdom government found to have discriminated against Czech Roma during immigration checks; and European Court of Human Rights declares Romanian Romani case admissible; - Anti-Romani sentiment issues in Hungary; - Refugee and IDP concerns in Kosovo and Serbia and Montenegro; - Bulgarian government rejects fund for school desegregation; and school segregation concerns in Denmark, Romania; - Hungarian legislators reject changes to Minorities Act; - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child reviews Croatia; - United Nations Committee against Torture reviews Greece; and - United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviews Spain.

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