Structural poverty in Roma communities is intimately linked to poor education and unemployment.

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.

The government allowed employment discrimination to go unchecked, leaving the majority of Roma without jobs, and communities were plunged deeper into poverty.

Of 2,800 registered non governmental organizations, 300 represent Kosovo Serbs, 55 Roma, and smaller numbers the Bosniac, Turkish, Gorani and Croatian communities.

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.

In 2009, the EU endorsed the principle of explicit but not exclusive targeting for Roma, and the European Commission allowed structural funds to be used to cover housing interventions in favour of marginalized communities, with a particular focus on Roma.

The number of Roma is difficult to ascertain because many of them still live a nomadic life, even though many are integrated into majority communities.

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The Roma

Empowering Europe s Roma

Of the 3,024 active KPC members, 157 are from minority communities (33 Ashkali, 17 Bosniac, 8 Egyptian, 1 Goran, 9 Croat, 14 Muslim, 2 Roma, 43 Serb and 30 Turk).

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

Roma right to education

Roma lived in segregated ghettos.

Spanish Leadership for Europe s Roma

The Plight of the Roma

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

The Roma Board is a body comprised of nine Roma representatives and nine State Entity ministries appointed representatives.

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.

While the European Roma Platform launched in 2009 paid lip service to Roma issues, it did not go far enough.

But we do not want that to limit us as far as meeting with communities, like young Roma who speak only Romani, or a Gypsy Hungarian poet who we were told we had to meet.

Roma Tre University, was formally established in 1992 under the name Terza Università degli Studi di Roma (Third University of Rome).

Of paramount importance had been the establishment of the inter municipal Roma network, comprising all municipalities within the Roma administrative domain.

Roma found a classy place for himself.

Only two Roma students attend the university.

The basic reasons for the dropout of pupils of the ethnic Albanian and Roma communities are to be found in the tradition, lifestyle, religion, habits, economic migration abroad, poverty, the change of which require longer period.

In conjunction with the launch of the Decade of Roma Inclusion in 2005, my foundation network formed an alliance with the World Bank and transferred its Roma educational programs to a newly established Roma Education Fund.

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

The delegation had repeatedly referred to the Roma as nomads , implying that their nomadic lifestyle was part and parcel of Roma culture.

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.

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.

In Italy, the Berlusconi government s treatment of Roma settlements destroying homes and fingerprinting Roma based solely on their ethnicity blatantly violated human rights.

The observer for Romania made reference to a new initiative called the Roma Diplomacy Project organized by the European Roma Information Office and DiploFoundation.

Six years after the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) had assumed responsibility for the province, members of the minority Serbian and Roma communities were frequently victims of inter ethnic violence that often went unreported and unpunished.

He offered to describe some of the social measures in place for the benefit of the Roma population, noting that the Roma were Italian nationals.

The Roma, and Europe, have suffered a great defeat.

Nevertheless, the living conditions of many Roma remain appalling.

The Roma must also be able to find employment.

During the communist era, Roma received jobs and housing.

At present, Roma children go to school only sporadically.

The key to success is the education of a new generation of Roma who do not seek to assimilate into the general population, but deliberately retain their identity as Roma. Educated, successful Roma will shatter the prevailing negative stereotypes by their very existence.

The key to success is the education of a new generation of Roma who do not seek to assimilate into the general population, but deliberately retain their identity as Roma. Educated, successful Roma will shatter the prevailing negative stereotypes by their very existence.

Roma lived in segregated ghettos. We were second class citizens.

In 1996, military police shot and killed two Roma conscripts.