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More than two hours took the discussion of the draft National Program for Roma Integration proposed by the new Working group established by Order P- 13/23.01.2009  of the Deputy Prime-Minister Emel Etem. This happened during the first for 2009 session of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Demographic Issues that took place on March 6. The Deputy Prime-Minister and Chair of NCCEDI Emel Etem announced that the draft Program proposed by state institutions in the end of February summarizes all previous suggestions , including the draft Program proposed by Roma...

At present the new Framework Program for Roma Integration is preparing in a way that exclude civil society organizations and Roma community, breaks resolutions and recommendations of European institutions and tends to make use of the new document in the election campaign. This was one of the main massage of the coalition of Roma organizations in Bulgaria during the press-conference that took place on February 15 in Sofia. Deyan Kolev (Center “Amalipe – Veliko Turnovo), Lili Makaveeva (Integro Association – Razgrad), D-r Stefan Panayotov...

Center Amalipe took part in St. Valentine’s Day exhibition. The Roma children from Aleko Konstantinov Str. in the old capital made a pile of Valentine cards. The incomes of the charity exhibition will be used for buying materials for children’s classes. The volunteers of Center Amalipe – Maria, Philip, Any, Stefka and Mitko also took part in the preparation of the Valentines cards. Beside this the girls put on traditional Roma clothes specially for the event which was on 12-th and 13-th February 2009. The initiative for the Romantic celebrating...

Roma organizations and experts included in the Working Group for preparing new Framework Program for Equal Integration of Roma in Bulgarian Society (FPEIRBS) and other Roma organizations prepared integral draft for the Program. It summarized the suggestions raised during 6 Regional discussions in October and during the National Meeting of Roma Organizations that took place in Sofia on December 9. It also develops the ideas from the Declaration for Roma Integration Actions signed by 91 organizations during the National meeting. The draft proposed preserves and...

The facts: Deputy Prime-Minister and Chair of NCCEDI Emel Etem defined new composition of the Working group for preparing new Framework Program for Roma Integration as well as new deadlines thropugh its Order Р-13/23.01.2009. Most of experts of Roma NGOs are not included in the new Group composition: from 10 they declined to 4 (Deyan Kolev, Nikolay Kirilov, Stefan Panayotov and Assen Kolev). The National Coordinator of the Decade of Roma Inclusion Baki Hyuseinov is not included in the new composition too. Iosif Nounev (expert in educational integration from...