ECHR The case concerned the complaints of two young men of Roma origin that their education in schools for the mentally disabled had been the result of misplacement and had amounted to discrimination. Violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education) read in conjunction with Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)
The Court underlined that there was a long history of misplacement of Roma children in special schools in Hungary. It found that the applicants’ schooling arrangement indicated that the authorities had failed to take into account their special needs as members of a disadvantaged group. As a result, the applicants had been isolated and had received an education which made their integration into majority society difficult.
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11146/11 – HEJUD, [2013] ECHR 92
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See Also – Horvath And Kiss v Hungary ECHR 3-Jul-2012
horvath_kiss_hungaryECHR2012
Statement of facts – The application concerns two young Romani men, who were misdiagnosed as having mental disabilities. As a result of these misdiagnoses, the applicants could not access mainstream education. Instead, they were educated in a . .
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Human Rights, Education, Discrimination
Updated: 13 November 2022; Ref: scu.470652