It also provided invaluable support to member countries public education systems to strengthen Roma inclusion.

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.

In response to France s position, the Swedish government also called for concerted EU action to foster Roma inclusion.

The EU must recognize that the pan European nature of this problem demands a comprehensive and effective strategy for Roma inclusion.

The Committee recommends that, in applying its Poverty Reduction Strategy and national plans of action for the implementation of the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the State party take special measures to alleviate the extent of poverty among Roma.

On a positive note, the Decade of Roma Inclusion, established in 2005, is receiving strong support from the structural funds administered by the European Commission and is making some inroads.

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The Roma

Empowering Europe s Roma

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.

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.

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.

Among the many reasons behind such low levels of inclusion of Roma children in the education system are the following poverty, discrimination, name calling and harassment at schools, lack of trust in the Government, war and displacement, tradition and customs, language, etc.

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.

Redistribution or Inclusion?

Financial Inclusion Now

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

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.

The Economics of Inclusion

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.

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

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

But no group has been harder hit than the Roma.