Police and Roma and Sinti communities

On International Roma Day, OSCE/ODIHR Director calls for greater efforts to improve co-operation between police and Roma communities

WARSAW, 8 April 2014 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called today for greater efforts to improve relations and co-operation between police forces and Roma communities. On the occasion of International Roma Day, he further called on law-enforcement authorities to ensure effective police responses to violence against Roma and Sinti people in the OSCE area...

Press release
English
8 April 2014

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Summary Report of the Expert Meeting: Police and Roma and Sinti - Current Challenges and Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding

Throughout the region of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Roma and Sinti face a number of human rights challenges in their interactions with law enforcement agencies, including ethnic profiling, the disproportionate or excessive use of force by the police and police failure to respond effectively to Roma and Sinti victims of crime, hate crime and racist violence.

Report
English
10 June 2014

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Police and Roma and Sinti: Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding

This publication identifies principles and good practices that can be used in efforts to improve relations between the police and Roma and Sinti communities. It to assist participating States in implementing their commitments under the Action Plan by identifying principles and good practices that can be used in efforts to improve relations between the police and Roma and Sinti communities

Guide / manual / handbook
English

Русский

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Română

Srpski
29 November 2010

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Report on field visit on police and Roma relations, Romania

Report following a field visit conducted between 12-15 November 2007.

Report
English
25 February 2008

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