EUMAP and advocacy by topic

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EUMAP and advocacy by topic

Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma

Severe discrimination of Roma children in Slovakia – calls for action to the EU and the Slovak government

Submission by the Open Society Institute to the European Commission's public consultation on Schools in the 21th Century: The contribution by Andre Wilkens, Director, Open Society Institute-Brussels, and Katy Negrin, Consultant, EU Monitoring and Advocacy Programme (EUMAP) to the Public consultation "Schools for the 21st century" (info) focused on equal access to quality education for Roma pupils.
Joint press conference with Amnesty International: New EUMAP monitoring report on access to education for Roma in Slovakia pre-released at Brussels press conference, together with the Amnesty International report "Still Separate, still Unequal: Violations of the Right to Education for Romani Children in Slovakia".
Joint Statement on needed EU action to end Slovakia’s discrimination against Roma children: Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute call on the EU to put pressure on the Slovak government to end the systematic violation of the right of Roma children to education.
Open joint letter to the Slovak government: The Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, the ERRC, the Roma Education Fund and the Milan Simecka Foundation call on the government to redress patterns of racial discrimination and human rights violations against the Roma, and the segregation of Romani children in education.

Media Policy

Launch and progress of the NMP 'Television across Europe' followup project

Follow-up action on Television across Europe report in full swing: The OSI Network Media Programme (NMP) leads a followup project to the EUMAP/NMP monitoring, in which several national and transnational research activities are financed. Four of those are underway and will be completed in 2007.
Information and relevant documents on the NMP 'Television across Europe' followup project and the June 2006 conference in Budapest where it was launched

Extra translation of the Television across Europe summary report

The summary report was translated into Russian, in response to the relevance that the experience of the twenty countries covered in the report can have for countries beyond the monitored region.

Comments on the findings of Television across Europe

Exchange of comments on the findings of the "Television across Europe: Regulation, policy and independence" country report on Poland, by Mr Pawel Dobrowolski, Mr Karol Jakubowicz.
Exchange of comments on the findings of the "Television across Europe" country report on the Czech Republic, by Mr Martin Krafl and Ms Penelope Farrar.

Contributions to international and intergovernmental organisations/events:

OSI contribution to the European Commission Consultation on the application of state aid rules to public service broadcasting, based on the findings and recommendations from the "Television across Europe" series of monitoring reports
Debate at the closing session of the Eurovisioni 2006 International Festival of Cinema and Television: "RAI's public service contract: a chance to relaunch a real radio and television public service in Italy". A discussion on the basis of the "Television across Europe" monitoring report on Italy, held 22 October 2006
OSI participation in the 15 March 2006 public hearing of the European Parliament Intergroup on Press-Communication-Freedom to acknowledge the opinion of the trade unions, and those working in production and distribution
OSI contribution to the European Parliament debate on the amendment of the Television without Frontiers Directive, based on the findings and recommendations from the "Television across Europe" series of monitoring reports
OSI contribution to the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Public Service Broadcasting in the Information Society (MC-S-PSB), based on the findings and recommendations from the "Television across Europe" series of monitoring reports
OSI contribution to the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Media Diversity (MC-S-MD), based on the findings and recommendations from the "Television across Europe" series of monitoring reports
EUMAP at the 7th Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy, Kiev, 10-11 March 2005

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