European Roma Rights Centre
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The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international non-government organised that seeks to protect the rights of Europe's Roma people and combat anti-Roma racism, often involving itself in litigation against Roma discrimination. The organisation, created in 1996, works with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights as a cooperating member and also has consultative status with the Council of Europe and with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The ERRC is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.
The ERRC has also been involved in policy formulation. It wrote “Roma in an Enlarged European Union”, which one of the most influential policy documents on the Roma, published by the Directorate General of Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission. The ERRC has influenced the European Union enlargement by making sure that candidate countries comply with the Copenhagen criteria and ensuring that the Roma situation is a priority issue. The ERRC also contributed significantly at the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The session was held in Geneva in August of 2000 and was committed solely to the issue of Roma discrimination. The ERRC has both illuminated the Roma issue to the public and help with policy development, yet one of the most important functions is that is educates the Roma about what courses of action they themselves have open and can take. The ERRC is also training Roma rights activists, which will be a great help in furthering the fight against discrimination.
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