Roma in Europe: Human Rights or Humans Out of Sight?

Citizenship Regime

Europe is confronted by a painful paradox; while the idea of ‘Europe’ conceptualizes the European Union as a champion of liberal democracy, human rights and equality, the position of the Roma clashes with this vision. This paper looks at human rights and exclusion in Europe with specific emphasis on the Roma ethnic minority and argues that prevalent anti-Roma discrimination in both Western and Central- Eastern Europe holds larger ramifications than merely the Roma’s constant position of alien, or “despised outsider”. The power of discrimination, popular culture and opinion in marginalizing the Roma effectively limits their equal exercise of civil, political, and human rights. The Roma therefore represent tangible limits to the ideas intertwined with European integration. It is argued that the unwillingness to address the issue of Roma exclusion on the local level within specific countries possesses the effect of creating a two-tier citizenship regime that possess the capacity for unraveling the social and intellectual aims of the European Project. Social, legal, and actual exclusion of the Roma therefore holds significant ramifications for social policy within an enlarging EU. The paper presents popular depictions of the Roma and illustrates the pervasive power of exclusion by examining events such as the 1993 Czech citizenship law; the 1999 construction (and subsequent debate over the dismantling) of a wall around Roma apartments in the Czech town of Ústi nad Labem, widespread use of physical violence and intimidation to discourage Roma settlement and racism in Central and Eastern Europe. These events suggest that the pan-European “identity” is far from constructed and that systematic and fundamental change in attitudes towards among elites and society at large and representations of the Roma is essential if the EU’s enlargement is to expand the protection of Human Rights on an equal footing throughout Europe for the Roma. Combating historical representations constructed by social and political elites of the groups such as the Roma as an other is of paramount importance if the Roma, and other ethnic minorities, are to be included as equal stakeholders in an enlarged Europe.

Effects of the Measures Undertaken by the European Mediator Regarding the Protection of Human Rights

Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics ◽

10.14505//jarle.v10.2(40).14 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 549

Author(s):

Claudiu IGNAT

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Human Rights ◽

Social Impact ◽

European Union Member State ◽

Main Function ◽

The European Union ◽

Human Rights Protection ◽

Rights Protection ◽

The Social ◽

The research performs an accurate radiography regarding the measures the European Mediator unfolds in the Human Rights protection but also with regard to the social impact upon the European citizen. The European Mediator is a complement to the ombudsmen existing in each State. However, its competence is limited only to the European Union authorities, as it does not involve the ones of the Member States. Any possible reports between the European Mediator and the equivalent institutions from the European Union Member State can only be mutually supported as long as every ombudsman aims the fulfilment of the same main function, namely that of administration control and citizen protection.

The right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights

10.29039/01850-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yuliya Samovich

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Case Law ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

The European Union ◽

Educational Organizations ◽

European Court ◽

Judicial Procedure ◽

The Right ◽

Judicial Protection

The manual is devoted to making individual complaints to the European Court of human rights: peculiarities of realization of the right to appeal, conditions of admissibility and the judicial procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. The author analyses some “autonomous concepts” used in the court's case law and touches upon the possibility of limiting the right to judicial protection. The article deals with the formation and development of the individual's rights to international judicial protection, as well as the protection of human rights in universal quasi-judicial international bodies and regional judicial institutions of the European Union and the Organization of American States. This publication includes a material containing an analysis of recent changes in the legal regulation of the Institute of individual complaints. The manual is recommended for students of educational organizations of higher education, studying in the areas of bachelor's and master's degree “Jurisprudence”.

Cuestiones Políticas - Conflictividad política, pandemia de COVID-19 y nuevos paradigmasConflictividad política, pandemia de COVID-19 y nuevos paradigmas ◽

Ensuring Human Rights in Ukraine: Problematic Issues and Ways of their Solution in the Social and Legal Sphere

10.46398/custpol.3764.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (64) ◽

pp. 124-136

Author(s):

Yevhen Leheza ◽

Tatiana Filipenko ◽

Olha Sokolenko ◽

Valerii Darahan ◽

Oleksii Kucherenko

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Unified Approach ◽

Legal Norms ◽

The Social ◽

Political Forces ◽

The Stability ◽

Development Prospects

The article discusses some complex factors influencing the process of realization of human rights in Ukraine, highlights the unified approach to the classification of legal norms that exercise human rights and freedoms, as well as problems and development prospects. Now the real protection of human rights is one of the most acute problems of the Ukrainian reality. It serves as one of the most important tasks, not only for the functioning but also for the existence of the Ukrainian state. Therefore, it should be borne in mind that guaranteeing respect for human rights in Ukraine is only possible through effective reform of the power system and compliance with an integrated approach to guarantee human rights, both by the State and by society. civil. It is concluded that guaranteeing the general enjoyment and enjoyment of human rights is a matter of co-responsibilities, which is why it is also negatively affected by the rigid opposition of the political forces, which undermines the stability of society, the stability of the constitutional order. While increasing the low level of legal culture of officials and citizens.

The social crisis of 'central'- eastern Europe since 1989

Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine ◽

10.5937/gakv9709343f ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 69 (9) ◽

pp. 343-353

Author(s):

Aleksandar Fatić

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Political Transition ◽

Social Crisis ◽

Central European ◽

Central Eastern Europe ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Central Eastern

This paper deals with specific aspects of the crisis of social policy on the "central"-eastem European region, after the onset of political changes that commenced in 1989 with the so-called ..anti-communist revolutions", especially in "central" European countries. The period that began then has been characterised by fast political "transition" and restructuralisation of the economy and political institutions. It has brought with it the excitements of the "capitalisation" of the economy and society, greater individual liberties and rights. However, it has also inflicted on the region a social crisis of apocalyptic dimensions, which is truly unprecedent in this century's history of eastern Europe. The paper explores some particular elements of this social crisis, both statistically and qualitatively. These aspects of the crisis are interpreted, and in its concluding section the paper purports to suggest that any institutional and political change tends to have its more or less devastating social price, which in the case of most countries of "central"-eastern Europe could be have been lower if the reform had progressed at a more moderate and better planned pace.

Accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Entrepreneurship, Economy and Law ◽

10.32849/2663-5313/2020.12.52 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 300-304

Author(s):

Siuzanna Asirian ◽

Serhii Vlasenko ◽

Sophiia Trishyna

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Human Rights ◽

European Convention ◽

The European Union ◽

Fundamental Freedoms ◽

European Identity and the Challenges of Turkish Accession to the European Union

The General Assembly Review ◽

10.5206/tgar.v2i1.10246 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Sara Duodu

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Human Rights ◽

Middle East ◽

Human Rights Violations ◽

European Identity ◽

The European Union ◽

Full Membership ◽

Member States ◽

Muslim Majority

In 2005, Turkey entered into negotiations for membership with the European Union. Turkey has been an important strategic ally to the European Union in the Middle East, explaining the mutual desire for closer ties between the two. While these negotiations showed promise early on, it has become increasingly apparent that Turkish accession to the European Union will not come easily, if at all. Officially, the European Union cites Turkey’s shortcomings on issues such as human rights as the reason for the stall in negotiations. However, upon closer inspection, it is evident that there is more at play, particularly as the European Union has been inconsistent in their approach to addressing human rights violations. Member states such as Poland and Hungary, which have recent human rights violations, have not faced the same kind of condemnation that Turkey has from the leaders of the European Union. The reality is that the European Union is largely united by its shared Europeanness and Christianity. As a result, due to questions over Turkey’s Europeanness and its large Muslim majority, the European Union is apprehensive to afford it full membership. It can be said that the European Union has maintained that Turkish accession is still possible in order to continue reaping the strategic benefits from close relations with Turkey.

IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS TO HEALTHCARE

Wiadomości Lekarskie ◽

10.36740/wlek202007142 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (7) ◽

pp. 1539-1544

Author(s):

Volodymyr V. Marchenko ◽

Inna I. Kilimnik ◽

Alla V. Dombrovska

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

European Convention ◽

Structural Method ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

The European Union ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

European Court ◽

Analysis And Synthesis ◽

The aim: The aim of the study is to examine the blockchain technology in the field of healthcare, to analyze the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding respect for private and family life, home and correspondence, to analyze the key positions of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter – ECHR) in the field of human rights to privacy, to analyze the European Union (hereinafter – EU) secondary legislation regarding the supply of medicines, prospects for the blockchain usage in order to protect human rights to privacy and improve the quality of medicines. Materials and methods: Scientific works that are devoted to the outspread of digital technologies in healthcare, the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, the ECHR’s practice on the protection of human rights to privacy, the provisions of the EU secondary legislation that regulate the supply of medicines are studied. The methodology of this article is based on comparative and legal analysis techniques and includes system-structural method, method of generalization, method of analysis and synthesis as well. Conclusions: The blockchain technology in medicine and pharmacology will increase the level of protection of human rights to healthcare quality.

The Convergence of the Fundamental Rights Protection in Europe - Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice ◽

Protection of Human Rights in the European Union

10.1007/978-94-017-7465-9_10 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 185-197

Author(s):

Viktor Muraviov ◽

Olena Sviatun

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Human Rights ◽

The European Union ◽

6. General principles of law

Steiner & Woods EU Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198795612.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Lorna Woods ◽

Philippa Watson ◽

Marios Costa

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Human Rights ◽

Fundamental Rights ◽

European Convention ◽

The European Union ◽

Charter Of Fundamental Rights ◽

General Principles Of Law ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This chapter examines the development of the general principles by the Court of Justice (CJ) to support the protection of human rights in the European Union (EU) law. It analyses the relationship of the general principles derived from the CJ’s jurisprudence to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights (EUCFR). It discusses the possible accession of the EU to the ECHR and the implications of Opinion 2/13. It suggests that although the protection of human rights has been more visible since the Lisbon Treaty and there are now more avenues to such protection, it is debatable whether the scope and level of protection has increased.