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

The scale of this challenge demands a comprehensive, institutional response from the EU that goes well beyond the Decade and the capacity of my foundations.

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.

The Plight of the Roma

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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.

Empowering Europe s Roma

Roma right to education

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.

gypsy students (boys and girls)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Integrating the Maghreb

Integrating services

Roma lived in segregated ghettos.

The Roma must also be able to find employment.

During the communist era, Roma received jobs and housing.

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

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.

Redistribution or Inclusion?

But no group has been harder hit than the Roma.

In total, the Roma in the CR now number around 200,000.

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.

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.

My foundation network has made the education of Roma a priority since its inception in Hungary in 1984, and across the rest of Eastern Europe since 1989. These efforts have produced a small, well educated Roma elite who are now making an important contribution to the emancipation of Roma.

My foundations have been active in educating Roma for more than 25 years.

Together with the World Bank, we established the Roma Education Fund in 2005.

A lasting solution requires Europe to build a Roma working class.

A minority population which is almost totally neglected in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the Roma population.

At present, Roma children go to school only sporadically.

(represented by the European Roma Rights Center and the League of Human Rights Advocates)

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.

Other reports alleged police brutality and abusive behaviour during the eviction of Roma families from unauthorized camps, and one Roma organization had provided comprehensive information on specific cases of abuse.

Establishing criminal justice in post conflict societies

Nevertheless, the living conditions of many Roma remain appalling.

The majority population is very hostile towards Roma, and discrimination against them occurs at every level.