ERRC Roma rights 2018-2021 ERRC Roma rights 2018-2021 Romer i Europa är i många fall offer för diskriminering och deras mänskliga rättigheter respekteras inte. Kränkningar mot romers mänskliga rättigheter tar sig ofta uttryck i form av hatbrott som ej bestraffas; att romer får sämre möjligheter till utbildning; att romer har sämre tillgång till boende; samt att romer diskrimineras av olika myndligheter och rättsvårdande instanser.
European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) arbetar mot kränkningar mot Romer genom att i) driva rättsfall i nationella domstolar liksom i Europadomstolen; ii) bedriva evidens-baserat påverkansarbete, ofta kopplat till de rättsfall som bedrivs, för att få tillstånd policyförändringar och uppmärksamma makthavare på den bristande tillämpningen av existerande lagar; iii) bedriva forskning för att kunna sprida information om diskriminering och för att kunna påverka makthavare; iv) bedriva kapacitetsutveckling av romska enskilda organisationer så att de blir medvetna om sina rättigheter och förmögna att försvara dem.
ERRC har verksamhet i hela Europa, men Sida stödjer deras verksamhet i ODA-länder. Föreliggande program omfattar verksamhet i AL, BiH, KS, ME, MD, MK, RS, TR och UA. The Roma community in Europe (by 'Roma' is meant all Roma, with or without intersecting identities, and people who do not identify themselves as Roma, but are still targets of anti-gypsyism, such as those identifying as Travellers, Sinti, Ashkali or Egyptian) is daily exposed to discrimination, harrassement and abuse for the mere fact that they are Roma. Those degradations are influenced and often worsened by other inequalities associated with gender, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, language, residence status, nationality and many other characteristics.

Roma face rights violations such as forced evictions, police brutality, and lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and other basic services and facilities. Societies primed for prejudice often interpret these rights violations as appropriate and natural.

The cooperation partner European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is targeting anti-gypsyism by
• exposing human rights abuse against all Roma (particularly Romani women),
• litigating that abuse in court, and
• mobilising Romani women and men to contest illegal practices, unjust power relations, environmental harm, and inequitable resource allocation, and to contribute to positive sustainable development.

The tools ERRC uses include;
i) mobilisation - mobilising and empowering Roma and the Roma movement to use the legal system and justice mechanism to claim their rights,
ii) research-based advocacy and communication targeting those responsible for securing the rights of Roma,
iii) strategic litigation (public interest and testing litigation as well as representing individual litigants in Strasbourg or Geneva),
iv) information and communication about ERRC work and achievemts in various media.

Anti-gypsyism is present throughout Europe (defined as CoE 47 member states). However, Sida can only target ODA-countries why the focus of Sida funds via ERRC are the Western Balkans, Turkey and Eastern Partnership countries. The ERRC program proposal includes AL, BiH, KS, MD, ME, MK, RS, TR and UA. The ERRC's mission is to combat anti-gypsyism by; - exposing human rights abuse against all Roma, particularly Romani women, - litigating that abuse in court, and - mobilising Romani women and men;  *to contest illegal practises, unjust power relations, environmental harm, and inequitable resource allocation, and  *to contribute to positive sustainable development.