At present, Roma children go to school only sporadically.

To break the negative stereotypes, Roma children must be educated to celebrate and take pride in their Roma heritage.

For example, Roma children are often automatically put into classes for the mentally disabled, simply because they are Roma.

Evidence before the Court indicates that, in some Czech communities, Roma children are 27 times more likely to be sent to special schools than non Roma children.

All told, Roma children in Ostrava are more than 27 times more likely than non Roma to be placed in such schools.

Last year, the Fund directly assisted 30,000 Roma children and 800 university students.

In the most extreme cases, the education system itself is segregated isolated schools in remote camps special classes for Roma children in mainstream schools and an over representation of Roma children in classes for children with learning difficulties.

Whatever formula is adopted, it is certain that Roma children should be afforded the same opportunities as other children.

The Committee had received numerous reports of poor hygienic conditions in camps high dropout rates among Roma children difficulties for Roma people in finding work and hostile attitudes among some officials towards members of the Roma community.

There are almost no Roma children in the older grades of primary and secondary schools.

The low school attendance of the Roma (gypsy) group of children is a serious problem.

The statistics on the education of the Roma minority showed that the number of Roma children in primary school had risen by one third between 2001 and 2003 and there were now 13 schools specifically for Roma pupils.

The problem of low school attendance among children from the Roma minority should be urgently addressed.

In the school years from 1999 to 2002, the NGO Be my friend Sarajevo, in partnership with the organization Save the children UK, organized preparatory classrooms for Roma children from the three Roma communities in the Sarajevo canton.

For decades, racial segregation in European schools has stigmatized generations of Roma children as stupid and disabled.

Some time ago, the Step by Step program had been introduced for the Roma children in FBiH.

(a) Roma

The Roma

Where's Roma?

Signora Roma?

Signora Roma.

The evidence showed that more than half of the Roma children in Ostrava were placed in special schools, and that more than half of the population of special schools was Roma.

The Czech government admitted that some of the special schools student bodies comprised 80 to 90 Roma children.

The good news is that we know how to prepare Roma children to be productive members of society.

Empowering Europe s Roma

Mamma Roma, wait.

The REF is ready to help national education authorities across the EU improve their performance in educating Roma children.

In the field of education training, educational programmes addressing Roma children were implemented in 30 areas of the country.

Consistent with the report on evaluation for the year 2002 that was made by UNICEF, the Council of Europe and OSCE, in Tuzla Canton (where the largest percentage of the Roma children live), approximately 80 per cent of Roma children do not go to school.

Concerning the segregated classes for Roma children, she asked whether they were taught in Romany or in Croatian, and asked how the Government intended to integrate the Roma pupils back into the broader educational system.

Another speaker said that attention should be given to the situation of Roma children and to strengthening the decentralization process.

It was reliably reported in mid June, for instance, that two Roma children were severely beaten and their families threatened.

Roma right to education

Mamma Roma, come here.

Who's dying, Mamma Roma?

So long, Mamma Roma.

Regarding the Roma, it was a fact that many children dropped out of the school system from the earliest grades, and simply disappeared from formal education, owing in part to the migratory habits of the Roma.

The line read, Roma takes care of the Family, the Family takes care of Roma.

Roma lived in segregated ghettos.

Spanish Leadership for Europe s Roma

The Plight of the Roma

Sampdoria, A.S. Roma, and S.S.C.

Look who's here, Mamma Roma.

You tell him, Mamma Roma.

Under the National Programme for the Roma, mobile teams of representatives of Government Ministries and Roma associations had, in 2004, visited every Roma settlement in the country.