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  • Patrick Leisure

Avoiding the Perpetuation of Discrimination in Education: Individual Positive Measures versus Broad Anti-Segregation Policy in Szolcsán v. Hungary

May 17, 2023

By Patrick Leisure The Szolcsán v. Hungary judgment is the most recent iteration of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) strongly confronting segregation in schools and discrimination against the Roma people more generally. Unanimously finding a violation of Article 14 together with Article 2 of Additional Protocol 1, the judgment is similar […]

  • Merel Vrancken

Beating Brown v. Board of Education? Overrepresentation and desegregation measures in Elmazova and Others v. North Macedonia

February 07, 2023

Merel Vrancken In the recent case of Elmazova and Others v. North Macedonia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) received another opportunity to speak out against (Roma) segregation in education. It rose wonderfully to the occasion. In a unanimous and well-reasoned judgment, the Court condemns the existing segregation and clarifies that […]

  • Merel Vrancken

Breaking the ‘circle of marginalisation’ through desegregation measures: X and Others v. Albania

July 01, 2022

By Merel Vrancken In the recent case of X and Others v. Albania on the segregation of Roma and Egyptian pupils in education, the ECtHR speaks up strongly against the wrongs of segregation, fifteen years after the Grand Chamber had first done so in the case of D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic. The […]