Lydia Gall
Lydia Gall is a human rights lawyer by training and comes with a background in Roma rights and the Middle East. She has previously worked on documenting violations of humanitarian law and human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory followed by extensive work protecting and promoting the rights of the Romani minority in Europe.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Gall worked as a staff attorney involved in strategic litigation on behalf of Romani victims of human rights abuses, particularly in the fields of housing and education. As a freelance journalist, she wrote extensively on human rights abuses of Roma and on political developments with potential human rights implications in Central and Eastern Europe.
Articles Authored
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January 7, 2014
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November 7, 2013
Hungarian Authorities Fail Abused Women
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October 1, 2013
Dispatches: Criminalizing Hungary’s Homeless
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September 28, 2013
Dispatches: Belgrade Authorities Cancel Pride Again
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September 18, 2013
Dispatches: For Kosovo Victims, No Justice Yet
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September 3, 2013
Dispatches: Hungary’s War on the Homeless
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May 16, 2013
Response to Hungary is a Test for the EU
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March 15, 2013
EU Failing to Tackle Hungary’s Constitutional Missteps
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January 18, 2013
Hungary’s Alarming Climate of Intolerance