Twenty years after the break-up of the Yugoslav federation, the European Court of Human Rights is focusing on the plight of 25,000 people who were erased from Slovenia's registry of residents after the republic declared its independence.
Posts Tagged “equality and citizenship”
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A constitutional challenge in France could force the government to enact new laws that will safeguard against ethnic profiling by police, making France the only country in continental Europe to do so.
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For several years, the Open Society Justice Initiative has been documenting profiling in Europe, showing it's an unfair and ineffectual way of fighting crime. Rachel Neild and colleagues are now taking the fight to the courts.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: equality and citizenship, ethnic profiling, France, Rachel Neild, Will Cohen
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The International Day Against Homophobia is being celebrated—and no doubt hated—around the world on May 17.
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By banning headscarves, what message is Europe sending to its Muslim population? That we are open, tolerant and pluralistic, but not towards you?
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Despite considerable legal gains, discrimination against Roma remains widespread in Europe, and while violence has subsided in some countries, it has increased in others.
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The Dominican Republic is talking up reforms in its discriminatory process for acquiring national identity documents. A closer look reveals a much less encouraging picture.
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Believe it or not, one of the richest countries on earth simply cannot be bothered to document the size of its stateless population, let alone resolve this long-standing problem.
Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: bidoon, citizenship, equality and citizenship, Kuwait, minority rights, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness
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V. C. was just twenty years old when she was sterilized after giving birth in a Slovakian hospital. She claims her Roma ethnicity played a vital role in her sterilization. Next week, the European Court of Human Rights will hear the case.
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Europe's top human-rights watchdog issued an urgent rebuke to the Czech Republic last week: Stop the continued racial segregation of Roma children in schools, which damns them to "a future as second-class citizens."