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Injustice Renamed. Discrimination in Education of Roma Persists in the Czech Republic

Document number
2292
Date
2010
Title
Injustice Renamed. Discrimination in Education of Roma Persists in the Czech Republic
Author/publisher
Amnesty International
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
Summary
This report launches a campaign for real change. Amnesty International is calling upon the government of the Czech Republic, supported by the European Union (EU), to show leadership and direction to reverse racial discrimination in education and address grave violations of the right to education for Romani children. The systematic violation of the right to education of Romani children in the Czech Republic has been exposed and opposed by a wide range of national and international human rights organizations and human rights bodies. In November 2007, in the case of D.H. and others v. the Czech Republic, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter the European Court) found that the Czech Republic had violated the right of Romani children to an education free from discrimination, through their placement in "special schools" offering lower quality education. The Czech Republic was obliged by the judgment to adopt corrective measures.
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