After reviewing several legal complaints filled by Roma associations and human rights groups, the UN’s anti-racism and discrimination Committee will send a letter to put pressure on the European Union to urgently address the situation of the Roma and the Travelers in the context of France’s controversial collective deportation of Roma conducted by the Sarkozy administration.
The UN Committee stressed that any collective repatriation is not acceptable under the UN Human Rights Charter. The Committee judged that the Roma are currently “subject to a rise in racist violence”, and that such actions are taken seriously when there are worrying signs of “widespread racial discrimination”.
