The report of the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák, presented to the UN Human Rights Council. The report provides an update of her activities during 2015. It includes a thematic analysis on the topic of minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status.

A briefing on the situation of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand - from Fortify Rights and Burmese Rohingya Organization UK.

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Extract from the report: A 2013 constitutional court judgment (Judgment 168-13) has made statelessness a matter of law for several generations of dominicans of foreign descent (...)The law does not provide for dominican nationality to be automatically restored to the two groups of affected people identified. Moreover, it failed to address a wide variety of complex situations created by years of discriminatory policies and practices.

Extract from the report: The purpose of the research on access to socio-economic rights for Roma women, conducted by Praxis, is to provide information on Roma women’s access to the rights to health, education, employment, social assistance and information on housing conditions. The research also deals with gender perspective, examining the situation of women compared to men in the same community. It was conducted in ten municipalities in southern Serbia: Aleksinac, Prokuplje, Bojnik, Bor, Kuršumlija, Lebane, Leskovac, Bela Palanka, Kruševac and Knjaževac in the period February-August 2015.

Equal Rights Trust letter to the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health (in 2015) on ensuring equality in access to healthcare for migrant Roma communities. The letter shares the findings of consultation meetings which were undertaken with members of the migrant Roma community in four regions of the United Kingdom: Greater London, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and the East Midlands, and to make recommendations for how the Department could better meet its obligations under the Equality Act 2010.

Equal Rights Trust letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Department for Communities and Local Government focused on ensuring equality in access to housing for migrant Roma communities. The letter shares findings of consultation meetings undertaken with members of the migrant Roma community in four regions of the United Kingdom: Greater London, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and the East Midlands, and makes recommendations for how the Department could better meet its obligations under the Equality Act 2010. 

Equal Rights Trust letter to Rotherham Chantry House Jobcentre Plus on ensuring equality in access to Jobcentre Plus services. The letter shares findings of consultation meetings which were undertaken with members of the migrant Roma community in the Rotherham area, and it makes recommendations for how the Jobcentre could better meet its obligations under the Equality Act 2010. These consultations have revealed the existence of significant barriers which prevent members of this community from accessing services offered by Jobcentre Plus on an equal basis with others.