Publication details
Human Rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | International Journal of Refugee Law |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eev030 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eev030 |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | human rights; Council of Europe; Commissioner for Human Rights; Roma and Travellers; asylum seekers |
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| Description | Article reviews the thematic report on Human Rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe (commissioned by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg), which is supposed to be the first overview of the human rights situation of Roma and Travellers in all member states of the Council of Europe. It focuses mainly on the following areas: racially motivated violence against Roma and Travellers, the treatment of Roma and Travellers by law enforcement and judicial authorities (including ethnic profiling in the context of the movement of Roma across international borders), disproportionate subjection to arbitrary detention measures, Roma and trafficking in human beings, statelessness and difficulties Roma face in applying for asylum in other EU states (including a problem of the ‘tolerated’ (gedulget) status). |