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23.11.2014Center Amalipe presented good practices for preventing discrimination of Roma in Madrid

 

 

The outcomes of the International NET-KARD Project ‘Cooperation and Networking between Key Actors to combat discrimination against Roma’ were presented on a special conference held in Madrid on November 20, 2014.

The conference was attended by more than 50 participants, Roma and Non-Roma coming from different professional background and representing various institutions like the Council of Europe, the Fundamental Rights Agency, lawyers, police servants, journalists and NGO professionals. On the event were presented the four practical guides, written from 2012 to 2014, to prevent discrimination against the Roma communities: a guide for Police services, for Lawyers, for Media professionals and for NGO’s.

Center Amalipe received a special invitation by the main organizers, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, to present its good practices for preventing discrimination. Mr. Atanas Stoyanov presented three main areas in which Amalipe is working to prevent discrimination towards Roma in Bulgaria: intercultural education, community organizing and youth empowerment.  Respectively were presented three different projects implemented by Amalipe: “Ethnic of Folklore: Roma Folklore” vocational subject implemented in more than 230 schools, the Community Development Centers  and the work of the Roma community moderators in Bulgaria, and the “Youth is Tolerance” project that aims at combating discrimination and promoting tolerance among youngsters from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Hungary.

 

Main points of the discussion were that the current EU Framework for Roma strategies does not effectively deal with the issue of discrimination towards Roma which is a presupposition for all the other problematic areas that Roma are being connected with.

Main conclusions from the conference are:

 

1)      There is very little or lack of enforcement of the existing antidiscrimination law on national and European level: the national institutions that are supposed to start procedures against politicians that are discriminating Roma are being very passive and in most of the cases active NGO’s are those who to bring the discrimination cases to the respective national institutions, European Court of Human Rights and media. As an example was pointed the ex-President of Romania, Mr. Basescu who was fined for a discriminative speech towards Roma, but after the big efforts of the Romanian NGO’s to make the national institutions work on the case;

2)      There is a lack of training for media representatives, police servants, lawyers and NGO professionals how to deal with the issue of discrimination from these four different perspectives;

3)      There are very few NGO’s in Europe that are having as their main goal “protection of human rights and antidiscrimination”. On practice victims of discrimination are not aware of the existing legislation and mechanisms to claim their rights, therefore the role of such NGO’s is very important.

 

A very sad fact from Bulgaria is the lack of information for the cases that are being solved by the National Committee on protection Against Discrimination. The institution does not have published reports for 2012 and 2013 that can be found on its official webpage. On the other hand the e-mail that is published as an official tool for communication with this institution is invalid. This is an important indicator about how sensitive is Bulgaria as a state towards the issue of discrimination and according the law, the Ombudsman of Bulgaria should start a procedure of revision towards the Antidiscrimination Committee.

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