![]() ![]() This means that the Ministry cannot claim anymore that it doesn’t know who is Roma and therefore is not responsible for its actions or omissions that massively disadvantage the Roma.” The Ministry is required to create a protocol that is suitable to collect anonymous, statistical, ethnic data on children in state care. The court agreed with the ERRC’s requests for the immediate termination of illegal child removals, and ordered the Ministry to monitor and collect data on the number of children in state care in Nógrád County who are perceived to be of Romani origin every year for five years.Īccording to Adél Kegye, the lawyer who represented the ERRC in the case: “The judgment is a big step forward as the ruling obliges the Ministry to collect ethnic data. The ERRC acted as the plaintiff in this actio popularis case, representing all Romani children who had been affected by the removals. The judgment states that families were discriminated against on the grounds of socio-economic status and poverty, as well as because of their Romani ethnicity. On the 4th October, the Court found that the Ministry of Human Capacities had violated the right to equal treatment for children who had been taken away from their families due to their financial situation, the majority of whom are Roma. ![]() Budapest Court Rules State Removal of Romani Children from Families is Discriminationīudapest, 5th October 2021: The Metropolitan Court in Budapest ruled in favour of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in a case challenging the overrepresentation and discrimination of Romani children in state care in Nógrád County, Hungary.
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