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

At present, Roma children go to school only sporadically.

The programs developed by the REF ought to be scaled up by governments, with the help of the EU, and made available to all Roma children in Europe.

Few go on to finish high school or attend university.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The statistics showing the enormous proportion of Roma children in those schools are hard to ignore, and the suspicion of discrimination is difficult to avoid.

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Half of the Roma are of school age, and the population is growing faster than the capacity of the REF.

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.

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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.

At the same time, the attendance of gypsy children is facilitated by the use of a special card of attendance, which enables them to have access to any school, omitting the official procedure of re registration, in cases when their families suddenly move.

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

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

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

That is what the REF has done.

Recommends the organization of a seminar on the Roma, in cooperation with the Council of Europe, to which Roma representatives from non European countries should also be invited

The Committee welcomes the efforts made by the State party to reform its legislation in accordance with the provisions and principles of the Convention but it remains concerned about the different types of access to citizenship, which mainly affect children from minority groups, especially Roma children.

Only two Roma students attend the university.

Classrooms were formed as a result of the initiative of the adult members of the Roma community, in cooperation with the Roma Association Kata Acha , and with the help in equipment and materials from the local schools.

Moreover, the requirement of parents approval for placing children in special schools remains valid, while Roma children who were initially placed in those schools could have returned to mainstream schools later, and thus reintegrated into normal schooling.

At the start of the school year 2000 2001, there were activities of the groups as is the case with the Roma NGO and community in Biberovici in Tuzla Canton, Sapna municipality, where preparatory classes were organized for a group of Roma children during 1998 99.

The Committee recommends that the State party undertake all necessary measures to ensure that all children enjoy equal access to and quality of health services, with special attention to children from ethnic and minority groups, especially Roma children.

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Roma lived in segregated ghettos.

The Roma must also be able to find employment.

During the communist era, Roma received jobs and housing.

He must provide maintenance for any minor children, and any children whose paternity he has acknowledged will share any inheritance with any legitimate children.

We'll have a look at a theater set up by young Roma in the Romani language.

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But you have kids.

Tom has kids.

He has 7 children.

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

Italy did its best to respect the specific characteristics of the Roma population and its culture (question 8), but did not consider the Roma to be a minority since the concept of a minority applied to persons residing in a particular territory the State tried to take due account of the way of life chosen by the Roma, which was to travel from one place to another.