Europe: a rise of discrimination against the Roma
Aug 31, 2012 16:46 Moscow Time
Jovan Damjanovic, President of World Roma Organization sharing his concerns and reservations about the position of Roma in contemporary Europe.
In recent years in entire Europe we can see a rise of discrimination against the Roma community, especially in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Italy and now France. But also there are problems in the UK, of course on the Balkans. And what is a great issue now is that ultra extremist political leaders are coming into authority in numerous European countries. And we know that all European countries are signers of all relevant declarations, for example the European Charter of Human Rights and the Universal Convention of Human Rights of the UN.
But what we can see in Europe in the past decades is terrible. Roma are being expelled and they are treated like the worst part of the society only because they are Roma. They mustn’t be expelled from France for example, because France has signed the contract about the freedom of movement and their borders are free but that is not the case with the Roma community. Roma are expelled back to Romania, to Bulgaria and that is one example of terrible discrimination and segregation. The European Commission and Commission for the Human Rights will do their best to force those countries to apply regulations of the EU and the discrimination against Roma will be stopped.
What needs to be done to better accumulate, to better integrate the Roma into the societies in the old world?
The main task is to educate Roma population because education is the most important for the progress of the Roma community. We know that children from the Roma national community are one of the most illiterate parts of the population. They are barely attending schools and they are leaving education after a few years and all countries need to implement their strategies for education of Roma, not only for children but also for adults. And besides education another important part is employment of the members of the Roma community, not only regular employment but allocation of funds for self employment and for opening of small companies, small businesses with grants and loans with the small interest rates. And in this case when Roma get their education on a proper level and when they have decent jobs, then we will have a different picture in Europe and discrimination will vanish from entire Europe.
Source http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_08_31/Europe-a-rise-of-discrimination-against-the-Roma/
Jovan Damjanovic, President of World Roma Organization sharing his concerns and reservations about the position of Roma in contemporary Europe.
In recent years in entire Europe we can see a rise of discrimination against the Roma community, especially in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Italy and now France. But also there are problems in the UK, of course on the Balkans. And what is a great issue now is that ultra extremist political leaders are coming into authority in numerous European countries. And we know that all European countries are signers of all relevant declarations, for example the European Charter of Human Rights and the Universal Convention of Human Rights of the UN.
But what we can see in Europe in the past decades is terrible. Roma are being expelled and they are treated like the worst part of the society only because they are Roma. They mustn’t be expelled from France for example, because France has signed the contract about the freedom of movement and their borders are free but that is not the case with the Roma community. Roma are expelled back to Romania, to Bulgaria and that is one example of terrible discrimination and segregation. The European Commission and Commission for the Human Rights will do their best to force those countries to apply regulations of the EU and the discrimination against Roma will be stopped.
What needs to be done to better accumulate, to better integrate the Roma into the societies in the old world?
The main task is to educate Roma population because education is the most important for the progress of the Roma community. We know that children from the Roma national community are one of the most illiterate parts of the population. They are barely attending schools and they are leaving education after a few years and all countries need to implement their strategies for education of Roma, not only for children but also for adults. And besides education another important part is employment of the members of the Roma community, not only regular employment but allocation of funds for self employment and for opening of small companies, small businesses with grants and loans with the small interest rates. And in this case when Roma get their education on a proper level and when they have decent jobs, then we will have a different picture in Europe and discrimination will vanish from entire Europe.
Source http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_08_31/Europe-a-rise-of-discrimination-against-the-Roma/
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