Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Minorities and the Right to Education
Assessing to what extent the ERS education Action Plan reflects the educational needs of Roma and other minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Publications
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Advocacy statements
- UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s contribution
- MRG and partner worried about the state of minority and Roma rights in Ukraine
- MRG & partners call on Russia to cease the violence caused by the war against Ukraine
- Public call by human rights and other organizations in the OSCE region due to the intention of the Russian authorities to wind up two oldest human rights organizations in the country
- MRG and partner advocate for adequate action to tackle hate speech against Roma in Ukraine
- MRG hails UN report on Islamophobia
- UPR of Bosnia and Herzegovina – MRG’s submission
- Joint NGO Statement ahead of the European Council of 22-23 June 2017 – Towards a migration policy that works
- Minorities in Turkey – Submission to the European Union and the Government of Turkey
Events
- Díjátadó: Fejlesztési Újságíró Díj 2022
- EVENT: Minorities subjected to contemporary forms of slavery: Addressing a global concern
- Press Briefing – Launch: Report on the Humanitarian Crisis on the Polish-Belarusian Border
- Díjátadó: Fejlesztési Újságíró Díj 2021
- EVENT: On the edge of society – Discrimination against Roma in Croatia and Bulgaria (BLG/ENG)
- EVENT: On the edge of society – Discrimination against Roma in Croatia and Bulgaria (CRO/ENG)
- Gwendolyn Albert: Stanislav Tomáš and the plight of European Roma
- Ideas for Europe: A Minority Rights Perspective on Europe’s Refugees and Migrants
- Towards Convergence? Anti-discrimination Policies and Minority Rights Protection in the Eastern Partnership Countries and the European Union
Key legal cases
- Memedov v. North Macedonia: The importance of access to justice and a missed opportunity to make a finding on racially motivated police brutality
- Macedonia: Ethnic profiling and discrimination against the Roma at border crossings
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniak barred from running for Presidency
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ensuring the political participation of minorities
News and blogs
- Skirting around equality: 14 years after Sejdić and Finci vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language Matters: Representation of Gypsies and Travellers in British media
- Turkey: Access to education in mother languages is a human right
- Smoked Fish: Using film to show the human toll of Anti-Asian hate crime
- Where hatred and intolerance can lead: letters from the Holocaust
- Stand Up For Stanislav Tomáš: A Call for Accountability and Structural Change in the Czech Republic
- Policing Bill: How the UK proves structural racism is alive and well against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
- We come to this world as human beings and we should stay human beings until our death – Part 2 of 2
- We come to this world as human beings and we should stay human beings until our death – Part 1 of 2
- How does border externalization relate to the climate emergency?
News from our projects
- Macedonia: Institutional discrimination and police brutality against Roma
- Call for the immediate release of leading human rights defenders in Turkey
- Building a network: The Eastern Partnership
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Video stories on everyday challenges faced by Roma communities
- Towards Convergence? Anti-discrimination Policies and Minorities Conference
Opinion
- Near Włodawa, Poland, there is a border that divides us all
- Pride, Autocrats, Identity, Nationalism: The Anachronistic Follies of War
- People as Pawns to Power: The Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis on the Belarusian Border Needs Urgent Attention
- In the Name of George
Press releases
- Roma in Croatia and Bulgaria face discrimination with little recourse to legal remedies – new report
- MRG condemns Spanish authorities’ excessive use of force during Catalan independence poll
- Türkiye’de birçok Roman, barınma ve eğitim haklarına erişemiyor
- Turkey: MRG condemns detention of Diyarbakir co-mayors
- MRG deplores closure of legitimate minority TV stations by Turkish government for alleged ‘terror propaganda’
- Uluslararası Azınlık Hakları Grubu (MRG), Türkiye Cumhuriyeti hükümetini, Kürtlerin haklarını savunan kuruluşlar üzerindeki baskılarını sona erdirmeye davet etmekte ve hükümeti devam etmekte olan çatışmaya barışçıl bir çözüm getirmek adına PKK ile görüşmeleri yeniden başlatmaya çağırmaktadır.
- MRG calls on Turkey government to end pressure on pro-Kurdish institutions and urges renewed dialogue with PKK for peaceful solution to current conflict
- Međunarodna grupa za prava manjina (MRG) ukazuje na nepostupanje Bosne i Hercegovine po presudi protiv diskriminacije donešene od strane najvišeg Evropskog suda za ljudska prava
- MRG calls out Bosnia for failing to comply with discrimination ruling from Europe’s highest court
- Srebrenica genocide survivor wins challenge in Europe’s top human rights court against ban on running for high office
Statements
- Our mother languages live with us!
- MRG stands in solidarity with Nurcan Kaya following her wrongful conviction in Turkey
- Joint Letter to demand justice for Stanislav Tomáš
- MRG condemns new UK Commission on Race and Ethnic disparities report
- Problem of Ramseyer’s Article on Buraku: from the Perspective of Human Rights and Non-Discrimination
- Joint statement: Civil society supports historic Genocide Amendment to UK Trade Bill
- Minority Rights Group urges Ukraine to take swift, comprehensive action to end the growing culture of mob violence against the Roma
- Call to Action: EU Member States Should Commit to the Emergency Relocation of Unaccompanied Children from the Greek Islands
Programmes
- Promoting Roma Equality in Slovenia and Slovakia (PRESS)
- Land Body Ecologies – The impacts of environmental change on mental health (LBE)
- Learning and collaborating on countering hate speech in Turkey and new EU Member States
- Strengthening Capacity of Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities and Ensure an Effective Advocacy for them in Turkey
- Sharing Good Practices in Protection of Workers and Victims of Modern Slavery during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Equality for Roma through Enhanced Legal Access (ERELA): Increasing Roma access to justice in Bulgaria and Croatia
- Freedom From Hate: Empowering civil society to counter cyberhate against Roma
- Roma Equality through Increased Legal Access (REILA): Increasing the access to justice of the Roma in Hungary and Serbia
- A partnership for all: Developing strategies for socio-economic cooperation between Roma communities and local authorities in Ukraine
- Disability/minority intersectional discrimination project (SIDA disability)
Publications
- Discrimination against Roma in Croatia and Bulgaria: A comparative report
- Minority inclusion learning review of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland – Programmes in the Horn of Africa
- Roma in the Republic of Serbia and Hungary: The Challenges of Discrimination – A Comparative Report
- Roma in Hungary: The Challenges of Discrimination
- Roma in the Republic of Serbia: The Challenges of Discrimination
- Covid-19 Response Action for Roma in Ukraine
- Roma in the Republic of Macedonia: Challenges and Inequalities in Housing, Education and Health
- Mainstreaming a Minority Rights Based Approach to Refugee and Migrant Communities in Europe
- Minority Rights Advocacy in the EU: A guide to NGOs in Eastern Partnership Countries
- Collateral Damage of the Dayton Peace Agreement: Discrimination Against Minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Twenty Years On
