2006 October - National Roma Centrum

Children working for 100 denars

Miners on the age 7-8 years, are working for 100 denars per hour, and are working for 11 hours in the vineyards in Tikves. The thirteen year old K. V. from Strumica instead of pencil and notebook, for almost a month is holding a knife in his hands cutting of grapes in the vineyards in Kavadarci. Keep reading…

The people in charge turn a blind eye in front of the children’s labor. The schools, social work centers, the Ministry for education and the Ombudsman’s office are letting them work because of the poverty of the pupils families. The empty stomach and the poverty are forcing these socially endangered families from Strumica and Stip with their children to work in the vineyards and the Keep reading…

The activities of the project point out the importance of health services for the Roma women in order to turn to the much needed research and studies within this sector, a process based on human rights for identifying of the specific situation of the Roma women. According to this, NRC’s goals are to contribute and ensuring that all necessary and provisions will reflect the real needs of the Roma women, than generalization and assumptions which do not express enough the health status of the Roma women. Health protection remains an issue of great importance for the Roma women, thus analyses of the health protection status represents a key for moving towards improvement and change of policies and practices. The Roma women are in a “double Keep reading…