NRC tооk part in the EU Roma Summit

Објавено во Activities and Conference participation and Information од NRC во Wednesday, 17 September 2008 во 22:05

On 16 September 2008, the European Commission’s first ‘EU Roma Summit’ took place in Brussels , under the joint patronage of the Commission President José Manuel Barroso and the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Asmet Elezovski and Sebihana Skenderovska attend the Summit as representatives of National Roma Centrum.

The Summit aims to promote a firm commitment to tackling concrete problems and to creating a better understanding of the situation of Roma across Europe.

"The European Commission has called for joint efforts by the EU and its member countries to bring Roma into mainstream society. It is urging national governments to step up efforts to help Roma access schools, housing, jobs and health services. Roma leaders and human rights advocates were among 400 people attending the summit organised by the commission. The aim was threefold:

Supplementary human dimension meeting - OSCE, Vienna

Објавено во Conference participation од NRC во Tuesday, 29 July 2008 во 21:41

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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