CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Gulyas, Nora |
|---|---|
| Title | Exploring Romani Participation: Role of Civil Society in Human Rights Mechanisms for an Inclusive Education in Hungary |
| Summary | School segregation in Hungary persists despite the widespread condemnation by international human rights mechanisms. As the Hungarian government tries to silence civil society organizations (CSOs), they turn to what Keck and Sikkink call ‘transnational advocacy networks’ (TANs) to exert political pressure on the state ‘from outside’. However, this engagement has not yet yielded to significant results. Inquiring about the effectiveness and accessibility of judicial and soft law mechanisms, in this paper, I explore whether and why CSOs engage in human rights mechanisms in their desegregation advocacy. Addressing the scholarly critique that these mechanisms, as well as CSOs partaking in them, are often detached from the ‘lived experiences’ of Romani people, I explore whether and how CSOs, by acting as a bridge between ‘rights holders’ and human rights mechanisms, ensure Romani participation. While doing so, I am inspired by Iulius Rostas’s work that analyzes Romani participation via Arnstein’s 1969 model on ‘civil participation’. ’As a practical component for my capstone thesis, I assisted a pro-Roma CSO with conducting background research for a study report on Romani children’s access to quality education. |
| Supervisor | Rovid, Marton |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/gulyas_nora.pdf |
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