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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Note: Although in this project we use the term ‘defendant with a disability’ generally, we also mean suspects, accused, defendants and sentenced persons with a disability. As part of the Enable project, FORUM has published National Briefing Papers identifying barriers faced by defendants with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities in the criminal justice system in the…