NRC

NRC’s staff, Asmet Elezovski and Sebihana Skenderovska, representing European Roma and Travellers Forum participated in OSCE’s Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Sustainable Policies for Roma and Sinti held from 10 -11 July 2008 in Vienna.

In the frameworks of the SHDM side event on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Roma in Italy was held, in the same time protests were held and Roma activists had meeting with representatives of Fundamental Rights Agency. We are concern of Italy policies toward Roma, which includes fingerprinting or ethnic profiling as methods to gather data about Roma, instead of policies to facilitate access of Roma to public services.

NRC as human rights based organisation promoting Roma inclusion is strongly condemns racial violence against Roma in Italy. OSCE is supporting Roma population in the region, but now when Roma are directly endangered in Italy OSCE should strongly react upon these violations. Roma need stability, security and urgent actions to stop racial attacks and persecution.

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This report complements the data about the situation of Roma children in education in Macedonia. It is intended for all actors in educational processes which are included (or intend to be included) in the action for improving of the condition of Roma in education. At the same time this report might offer assistance to the rest as a model for more efficient handling of the current condition of Roma pupils in elementary education.

The report from the conference provides positive messages and suggestions for creating and conducting of a more efficient educational policy and grasp of Roma pupils in elementary schools. All participants at the conference highlighted the importance of educat ion in creating of the future of Roma children and with that to the entire Roma community.

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Briefing Paper for Expert Consultation on Issues Related to Minorities and the Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship, 6-7 December 2007, Convened by the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues

Claude Cahn and Sebihana Skenderovska

I. Introduction

A number of large forces in Europe have in recent years weakened the power of the nation-state in Europe and/or given rise to competing trans-national authorities, particularly the European Union. Although extensive efforts have been made to link these practices to fundamental human rights or to the rights of European citizens – and indeed many hundreds of thousands of Europeans have benefited from these developments –, in practice a number of persons with genuine effective links to one or more European states are precluded from full and effective citizenship in all or any European states or polities. Many may even lack the recognized citizenship of any country. This exclusion is frequently on grounds of ethnicity or perceived race. Roma – a stigmatized, pariah minority – are particularly affected. Exclusion from the polity can and frequently does give rise to expulsion or threat of expulsion from country.

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On behalf of the massive action under the motto “Day of the tree – Plant your future” (2.4 million trees planted in Republic of Macedonia), which was realized on the 12th March 2008 supported by the Government of Republic of Macedonia, the local government, artists, citizens of Republic of Macedonia… the area for planting the trees in the area of Kumanovo was the village Celopek, where NRC’s member activists took full participation.

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