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

The Roma population is especially affected by the law degree of coverage of children in education, and a very low percentage of employment.

Romania already has a similar program for the majority population, and Minister of Education Remus Pricopie has pledged to open it up to the Roma.

Most Roma share the aspirations of the majority populations a home with adequate services, a decent education for their children, jobs that enable them to provide for their families, and to interact with the majority in their society.

The Plight of the Roma

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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.

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.

As a result, Roma unemployment rates in the Czech Republic, as in much of Europe, far exceed those for the rest of the population.

On the contrary, given the increase in its Roma population, Europe s long term prosperity depends on reversing current trends and getting started right away.

gypsy students (boys and girls)

The implementation of the positive measures undertaken by society towards the Roma population had sometimes encountered obstacles deriving mainly from the difficulties in coexistence between different lifestyles.

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.

As it is, educated Roma do not fit the stereotypes, so they can easily blend into the majority population, but the majority s hostility remains. If the approach developed by the REF were generally adopted, it would go a long way toward breaking the stereotypes.

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.

The greatest divide between the Roma and majority populations is not one of culture or lifestyle as is so often portrayed by the media but poverty and inequality.

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.

Even though no precise analysis of poverty among the Roma population has been carried out, available information points out that they are among the most destitute groups, very often living below minimum living standards and regularly without funds to support a family or educate children.

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)