Farkas Lilla

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• Appeal Leads to Victory for the Roma in Miskolc

  17 July 2006
  On 9 June 2006 the Debrecen Appeals Court overruled the first instance judgment in the Miskolc Desegregation Case. It found that by the decision that integrated seven schools without simultanously redrawing the catchment areas Miskolc upheld the segregation of Roma children, thus violating their right to equal treatment based on ethnic origin. The court ordered Miskolc to publicize the finding through the Hungarian Press Agency. CFCF is planning to shortly start proceedings against Miskolc in order to have a homogenous Roma school shut down and its pupils transferred to the nearby elite school. CFCF believes that the judgment sets a promising precedent for the Roma community that recently suffered a blow from the European Court of Human Rights in the Ostrava case.