 |
|
|
Monitoring human rights and the rule of law in Europe
|
| eumap.org |
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
EUMAP: EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program
>
Online Journal
>
EUMAP Announcements
>
Severe discrimination of Roma children in Slovakia – a call for action to the EU and the Slovak government
|
Severe discrimination of Roma children in Slovakia – a call for action to the EU and the Slovak governmentOn 15 November 2007, EUMAP launched a preliminary release of the report Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma in Slovakia during a press conference with Amnesty International in Brussels. The complete and final version is available online now. The report is part of a series of monitoring reports covering the nine countries participating in the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015. Amnesty International launched its own report, Still Separate, still Unequal: Violations of the Right to Education for Romani Children in Slovakia, which was simultaneously presented in Bratislava as well. Speakers included Jezerca Tigani (AI Regional Campaign Coordinator for Europe and Central Asia), Andre Wilkens (Director OSI-Brussels), and Stano Daniel (OSI research coordinator, based in Eastern Slovakia).* In a joint statement, Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute are calling on the EU to put pressure on the Slovak government to end the systematic violation of the right of Roma children to education. The two NGOs denounce the de facto open segregation that very young children are faced with in Slovakia, only because of their ethnic origin and low socio-economic background. This discrimination involves placing children in segregated schools for Roma-only, or even in institutions for children with mental disabilities. The findings of the two reports reveal that these are frequent practices tolerated by the Slovak authorities, who have so far been unable to put an end to the discrimination that undermines the potential of an entire generation and violates Slovakia’s obligations as an EU Member State. In a separate joint open letter, the Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, the European Roma Rights Centre, the Roma Education Fund and the Milan Simecka Foundation address the Slovak government on the occasion of Slovakia taking up the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe. They ask the Slovak government to engage proactively and systematically in action to redress patterns of racial discrimination and other human rights violations against the Romani minority. In particular, they call on the Slovak government to address the problem of the systematic erroneous placement of Romani children in schools for children with mental disabilities as well as other forms of segregated education of Romani children. Open Society Institute:
Amnesty International: Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute: Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, European Roma Rights Centre, Roma Education Fund and Milan Simecka Foundation: Press and web coverage
* Note to broadcasters: A video news access tape with footage of the segregated schools will be available. |
Related Library Resources »Security a la Italiana: Fingerprinting, Extreme Violence and Harassment of Roma in Italy 2008-07-10 · European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) A coalition of NGOs launched this report on the deterioration of the human rights situation of Roma and Sinti in Italy, on the occasion of the OSCE’s Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Sustainable Policies for Roma and Sinti Integration in Vienna. Coalition members include the European Roma Rights Centre, the Open Society Institute, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Romani Criss and the Roma Civic Alliance of Romania. The report includes a concise summary ... Segregated schools produce unemployed Roma people 2008-07-08 · Babel Hungary "Segregated schools produce unemployed Roma people," and this is one of the most important problems that the Roma living in Hungary has to face today. This is one of the main points Erzsébet Mohácsi, social pedagogue and director of the Chance for Children Foundation, highlights in this interview. Text and video. The Scottish Press - From 1955 to the Present Day: An Essay 2008-07-08 · allmediaSCOTLAND.com David Hutchison, a research fellow in media policy at Glasgow Caledonian University, is co-editor of the recently-published The Media in Scotland. Here, from a chapter in the book, he considers the Scottish newspaper industry during the last half century. Commission Staff Working Document: Community Instruments and Policies for Roma Inclusion 2008-07-02 · European Commission This staff working document sets out to list and examine the existing policies and instruments as a response to the European Council request calling urgently for a comprehensive European framework strategy on Roma. The Commission Communication on nondiscrimination policy draws conclusions from the thorough analysis of ongoing activities, opportunities and gaps identified in this document and lays down the framework and for further steps towards Roma inclusion. Pushing for Change? South East Europe's Minorities in the EU Progress Reports 2008-07-01 · Minority Rights Group International (MRG) This report by Minority Rights Group International discovers divergence between the EU messages and the realities that minority communities face in their day-to-day lives in SEE countries. This is partly because the EU lacks an institutionalized mechanism for involving local minority communities in the accession process, the report says. MRG, in an analysis of EU progress reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia since 2001, points to the EU’s lack ...
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| page top |
 |
|
 |
|
eumap.org is the website of OSI's EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP) and
an online centre for comprehensive resources, news, and analyses on human rights
and the rule of law in Europe.
|
|||
|
Selected icons: Crystal icon theme by
Everaldo Coelho
|
Feedback
Subscribe
