ECRI Report on Hungary: Fourth Monitoring Cycle 2009-02-24 · European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) ECRI conducts country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified in a report compiled every five years. This report is on Hungary and is among the fourth round reports which were started to be compiled in January 2008. The working methods for the preparation of the reports involve documentary analyses, contact visit in the ...

ECRI Report on Bulgaria: Fourth Monitoring Cycle 2009-02-24 · European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) ECRI conducts country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified in a report compiled every five years. This report is on Bulgaria and is among the fourth round reports which were started to be compiled in January 2008. The working methods for the preparation of the reports involve documentary analyses, contact visit in the ...

Violence Against Roma 2009-04-07 · Human Rights First “Violence Against Roma”, is an excerpt from Human Rights First’s 2008 Hate Crime Survey, which includes sections examining six facets of violent hate crime in the 56 countries that comprise the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This report documents violence and other forms of intolerance against Roma in eleven countries during 2007 and 2008. The most widely reported incidents occurred in Italy, where efforts to vilify Roma involved high-ranking government officials. Thousands of ...

A Plan for the Future? The Estonian State Integration Programme on National Minorities 2000-2007 2009-02-10 · European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) This article is published by the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE). The author Malte Brosig analyses the development of the Estonian State Integration Programme (SIP) 2000-2007 from its earliest moments in the 1990s to its current form. It is argued that although its theoretical basis is well grounded, the program does not account for minority integration needs systematically. Instead it follows a unidirectional action-plan, targeting Russian-speakers without a prior needs-assessment at ...

Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe: Tackling Social and Cultural Inequalities 2009-02-16 · Eurydice This study forms part of the follow-up to the 2006 European Commission Communication on “Efficiency and Equity in European Education and Training Systems” which refers to pre-primary education as an effective means to establish the basis for further learning, preventing school drop-out, increasing equity of outcomes and overall skill levels. The study examines the available cross-national data and national policies on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Europe. It is structured in three parts. ...