ECMI Publications Database
The Situation of Roma between Human Rights and Economics
Author:
Eben Friedman
Pages:
27
Release Date:
20-03-2014
If the dominant focus of documents on Roma published by intergovernmental organizations in the 1990s was on providing redress for past violations of human rights and protection fromfuture discrimination, this is no longer the case as of early 2014. Over the last decade, it has become increasingly common for calls to improve the situation of Roma to be justified in terms of economic benefits for society as a whole.