Category: European Pillar of Social Rights – Publications

ERGO Network Snapshot of Access to Essential Services

Snapshot on the Situation of Roma in Europe: Access to Essential Services  

Our Snapshots on the Situation of Roma in Europe are a series of reader-friendly, visually attractive handouts, linking each of the 20 policy principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights to Roma rights and inclusion. Each Snapshot includes key statistics, a brief problem statement, and extensive policy recommendations.  

Roma communities across Europe continue to face multiple, complex obstacles in their efforts to access essential services, ranging from clean water and heating, to transport and digital inclusion. These obstacles revolve around extreme poverty, inadequate service infrastructure, administrative exclusion and undocumented status, antigypsyism, and – not least – the ongoing and increased privatisation of public services. 

  • Read the Snapshot here! 

 For more information about our work on Access to Essential Services, please contact Amana Ferro (a.ferro@staging.ergonetwork.org), Senior Policy Adviser with the ERGO Network staff team. 

ERGO Network Snapshot of Housing and assistance for the homeless

Snapshot on the Situation of Roma in Europe: Housing and Assistance for the Homeless  

Our Snapshots on the Situation of Roma in Europe are a series of reader-friendly, visually attractive handouts, linking each of the 20 policy principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights to Roma rights and inclusion. Each Snapshot includes key statistics, a brief problem statement, and extensive policy recommendations.  

Many Roma across Europe live in de facto homelessness, or in insecure or substandard housing, in segregated informal settlements that lack access to services and pose environmental hazards. Widespread antigypsyism from all housing actors (landlords, sellers, banks, neighbours etc), ever-rising housing and utility costs, insufficient access to social housing, and forced evictions prevent them from accessing an adequate standard of living.  

  • Read the Snapshot here! 

For more information about our work on Housing and Assistance for the Homeless, please contact Amana Ferro (a.ferro@staging.ergonetwork.org), Senior Policy Adviser with the ERGO Network staff team. 

ERGO Network Snapshot of Health care, Inclusion of people with disabilities, Long-term care

Snapshot on the Situation of Roma in Europe: Healthcare, Inclusion of People with Disabilities, Long-Term Care  

Our Snapshots on the Situation of Roma in Europe are a series of reader-friendly, visually attractive handouts, linking each of the 20 policy principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights to Roma rights and inclusion. Each Snapshot includes key statistics, a brief problem statement, and extensive policy recommendations.  

Systemic health inequalities and entrenched unmet care needs are a daily reality for most of Europe’s Roma, entrenching disparities that range from life expectancy to prevalence of disabilities, across the medical spectrum, from mental health to sexual and reproductive health and rights. These are driven by social determinants such as poverty, antigypsyism, exclusion from services and insurance, and under-utilisation of Roma health mediators. 

  • Read the Snapshot here! 

For more information about our work on Healthcare, Inclusion of People with Disabilities, Long-Term Care, please contact Amana Ferro (a.ferro@staging.ergonetwork.org), Senior Policy Adviser with the ERGO Network staff team. 

ERGO Network Snapshot of Old Age Income and Pensions

Snapshot on the Situation of Roma in Europe: Old-Age Income and Pensions  

Our Snapshots on the Situation of Roma in Europe are a series of reader-friendly, visually attractive handouts, linking each of the 20 policy principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights to Roma rights and inclusion. Each Snapshot includes key statistics, a brief problem statement, and extensive policy recommendations.  

Most older Roma face stark health and income inequalities, due to a lifelong experience of poverty, poor housing, inadequate nutrition, and precarious work. At the same time, they are left with minimal pension entitlements, limited access to quality, inclusive, and proximity healthcare and long-term care services, and compounded discrimination based on both ethnicity and age, which, additionally, particularly impacts older Roma women. 

  • Read the Snapshot here! 

For more information about our work on older Roma, please contact Amana Ferro (a.ferro@staging.ergonetwork.org), Senior Policy Adviser with the ERGO Network staff team. 

 

ERGO Network Snapshot of Social Protection and Unemployment Benefits

Snapshot on the Situation of Roma in Europe: Social Protection, Unemployment Benefits, and Minimum Income  

Our Snapshots on the Situation of Roma in Europe are a series of reader-friendly, visually attractive handouts, linking each of the 20 policy principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights to Roma rights and inclusion. Each Snapshot includes key statistics, a brief problem statement, and extensive policy recommendations.  

The overwhelming majority of Roma in Europe, in fact over 80% of them, live in deep and persistent poverty, driven by limited access to adequate income and compounded by systemic discrimination. Many Roma are excluded from social protection entitlements due to strict eligibility requirements, inaccessible systems designed to discourage applicants, and widespread stigmatisation of beneficiaries.  

  • Read the Snapshot here! 

For more information about our work on Social Protection, Unemployment Benefits, and Minimum Income, please contact Amana Ferro (a.ferro@staging.ergonetwork.org), Senior Policy Adviser with the ERGO Network staff team. 

 

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