Strasbourg, 28 February 2012: The European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) welcomes the report published by the Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg

With much courage and dedication, Mr Hammarberg has set out for all to read what the Roma and Traveller community has known for decades – that Europe's anti-Roma apartheid system intrudes on every aspect of life and death in this continent.

What will governments do now that they have Thomas Hammarberg's comprehensive study of Europe's decades-long crime wave against Roma and Traveller communities?

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Dear Mr. Prime Minister, 

I am writing to you as President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) to express my deepest concern at the conduct of the special police force during the clashes that arose from the inspection of the market in Shto Orizari by the State Inspectorate of the Commerce on 15th April 2010. 

Lisbon 8 April 2010: Rudko Kawczynski, the President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum had an official visit to Portugal on the occasion of the International Roma day. Mr. Kawczynski had several meetings with the Romani organizations of Portugal.

Cordóba 8 April 2010: Soraya Post, Vice President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum and Vivane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission had a meeting on 7 April 2010 before the Second EU Roma Summit. Political participation of the need for the Roma Strategy were discussed.

Strasbourg 25 March 2010: In advance of the forthcoming Second European Roma Summit, the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) is calling on the European Commission to take immediate action at EU level in order to improve the situation of the European Roma.

Strasbourg 18 March 2010: The European Roma and Travellers Forum welcomes the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 16th March 2010 which finds that Croatia violated the European Convention on Human Rights by placing Roma children in segregated classes in primary school.