RELEASE Project I On 5-6 June 2025, Forum for Human Rights and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and partners organized a two-day transnational workshop in Prague on the United Nations (UN) Treaty Bodies and the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR). Lawyers from Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Malta, and Poland, along with…
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A new analysis emphasizes the need for legal protection of informal caregivers
The new analysis, Informal Care and Human Rights: The Right to Care from the Perspective of Informal Caregivers, is now available. Written by one of our lawyers, Maroš Matiaško, in cooperation with the Abakus Foundation as part of efforts to advocate for greater service accessibility, the analysis focuses on the legal status of informal caregivers,…
Abakus Foundation supports our new project
We are pleased to present our latest partnership with the Abakus Foundation with whose support FORUM will begin implementing the project Social Services – Strategic Litigation from January 2024. The project focuses on strategic litigation in the area of the inaccessibility of social services for people with disabilities, particularly children and young adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities. The…
FORUM filed an amicus curiae in Valchář v. Czech Republic
For two years now, FORUM has been implementing a project funded by the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture that provides legal aid to victims of torture and other forms of ill-treatment. FORUM has been representing a number of cases pending before different domestic levels that concern inaccessible redress for victims of torture or…
New Czech volunteer-led research & legal action shows how Roma combat online hate
Brussels, Prague, 24 January 2024: Young Romani activists, part of a volunteer-led project to record and litigate against online hate speech in the Czech Republic, have today released a publication exposing the state of online hate against Roma in the country as well as a policy guide detailing what the government must do if it…
FORUM and EIN join forces to implement freedom of expression judgments in Slovakia
We are thrilled to announce our cooperation with the European Implementation Network (EIN) in their new project focused on safeguarding freedom of expression in the Council of Europe member States. As a participant to this project, we are dedicated to promoting this fundamental right and the effective implementation of the relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights,…
Lawyers and volunteers jointly against online hate
Forum for Human Rights (FORUM) in cooperation with the group of volunteers active on socia media as ROMAntics and the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) have lodged six criminal complaints against individuals who have posted anti-Roma hate speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube in Slovakia. The complaints are all against individuals who…
We fight against environmental injustice
Forum for Human Rights (FORUM) in cooperation with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) have brought a collective complaint against the municipality of Martin, Slovakia on behalf of Romani families living dangerously near to a landfill on the outskirts of the city. The Roma were relocated to the segregated community named ‘Bambusky’ by the municipality…
We filed further criminal complaints for online hate
Forum for Human Rights (FORUM) in cooperation with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and young Romani volunteers at Romea.cz, have filed five new criminal complaints against individuals who have repeatedly posted racist statements calling for violence against Roma on social media in the Czech Republic. Most of these emerging cases of online hate speech against Roma…
We have filed an application with the ECtHR in the Stanislav Tomáš case
Forum for Human Rights together with the grassroot Roma supporting organisation Konexe and the European Roma Rights Centre have filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the Czech Republic in case of the death of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš in police custody in Teplice in 2021. The Czech Constitutional Court…