What good are Europe’s treaties aimed at ensuring the legal equality of all citizens when entire groups face systematic discrimination? That is the question that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) faces this week as its Grand Chamber, consisting of 17 judges, begins considering an appeal of an initial ruling that rejected claims of discrimination against the Roma by the Czech Republic’s education authorities.
在整个种族面临系统性歧视的时侯，欧洲旨在确保所有公民法律平等的公约有何作用呢？这就是欧洲人权法院（ECHR）本周所面临的问题。由17人组成的大法庭开始考虑对一项最初裁决的上诉，该裁决拒绝了就捷克共和国教育部门对罗姆人所作歧视提出的指控。