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The Legal Defence Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities (NEKI) was established in 1994 within the framework of the Otherness Foundation. It was established in order to provide legal defence for persons whose rights were violated as a result of their ethnic origin.
During 12 years of operation, we have received thousands of complaints from thousands of complainants, resulting in hundreds of cases being represented by our organisation. However our work cannot be measured on the basis of statistics alone. There are individuals behind every number who have suffered discrimination during job interviews, judicial procedures, the administration of local councils, in healthcare and in many other areas of everyday life for the simple reason that they happened to be born Roma. These are the very people we provide legal defence for.
Our representative cases are published annually in the White Booklet. This publication, however, can never truly reflect the tireless work of our attorneys and other specialists working either in our office or outside it, nor can it truly show the will and hard work of our clients, which they need during the procedures often lasting for many years. This struggle requires true devotion to the aims of the organisation on behalf of all the people involved. It is not the high number of successful test cases that I consider our real achievement. It is rather the fact that there are more and more people who now understand that human dignity is on a par with human life. The violation of neither of them can go unpunished.

dr. Imre Furmann
curator

 
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