From 10 to 13 December, the Department for the Execution of Judgments participated in a training of trainers held in Budapest for law enforcement officials to enhance capacities in addressing racially motivated crimes against Roma* in Hungary.
The training was organised by the Council of Europe’s Roma and Travellers Division, in cooperation with the Department, the Government Agent of Hungary to the European Court of Human Rights, and Hungarian policing authorities. It was aimed at informing participants of Council of Europe standards and improving their skills in applying them in their everyday work.
The Department presented the Committee of Ministers’ supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments, as well as the Balázs v. Hungary group of cases, pending under the Committee’s supervision and concerning the inhuman and degrading treatment of Roma applicants and ineffective investigations into possible racial motives.
This event, which is the first cooperation project between the Council of Europe and the Hungarian authorities concerning the execution of the Balázs group of cases, gathered police officers from across the country working on the specific issue of hate crimes, including racially motivated crimes against Roma.
News item from the Roma and Travellers Division
Thematic factsheet on Roma and Travellers
Thematic factsheet on hate crimes
*The term “Roma and Travellers” is used at the Council of Europe to encompass the wide diversity of the groups covered by the work of the Council of Europe in this field: on the one hand a) Roma, Sinti/Manush, Calé, Kaale, Romanichals, Boyash/Rudari; b) Balkan Egyptians (Egyptians and Ashkali); c) Eastern groups (Dom, Lom and Abdal); and, on the other hand, groups such as Travellers, Yenish, and the populations designated under the administrative term “Gens du voyage”, as well as persons who identify themselves as Gypsies.
