week 3 overview of european policy towards the roma 9 march 2005 laura laubeova laubeova@...
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Background: policy actors• EU, EP• CoE• OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Lund, Oslo, and Hague recommendations• OSCE ODIHR Roma/ Sinti Contact point • WB (Decade of Roma inclusion)• UN • UNDP• NGOs (OSI, ERRC, MRG ..)• National governments (e.g. role of Finland)• Romani organisations (Local, National, International)
Some Romani organisations
CZ: Athinganoi Gabriela HrabanovaDzeno Ivan VeselyRomea Jarmila BalazovaSlovo 21 Jana HejkrlikovaManushe
UK: GCECWCR (for education, culture,welfare and civil rights)
INTL: IRU, RNC, ERTF
Resources Reader +
Danbakli, Marielle, ed.(2001) Roma, Gypsies: Text Issued by International Institutions. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press.
Rooker, Marcia (1997) "Monitoring Human Rights: The Importance of the Universal Level for Roma and Sinti" CPRSI Newsletter, February 1997, vol.3, no. 1, pp. 3-10
Puxon, Grattan (2000) „The Romani Movement“ in Acton: Scholarship and the Gypsy Struggle
Matras, Yaron (1998) ”Development of the Romani Civil Rights Movement” in Tebbut: Sinti and Roma
Martin Kovats (2001)
”The Emergence of European Roma Policy.” • EU: PHARE• CoE: Verspaaget report 1995; Specialist Grp on R/G;
Guiding principles for improving the sit. of R.• OSCE: HCNM 1993, 2000; ODIHR Contact point on
R+ S issues• recommendations /guidelines onRoma representation• decontextulisation• focus on broader economic and social factors (WB,
UNDP)
Key events 1989-95Resolutions in support of Romani rights
• 1990 CSCE• 1992 UN HR Commission• 1993 CoE
1993 EU Seville Congress
1994 joint seminar of CSCE and CoE in Warsaw
1994 Standing conference of Romani associations in Europe
1995 Roma advisory council at CoE (gadje experts) Matras, 1998:61
Recent Key Events2001 Declaration of Romani Nation2001 Durban Conference – Roma & Traveller Caucas.
Anna Cervenakova speech.2003 WB and UNDP Reports2004 EU Enlargement (Reader 3.7)2004 IRU Congress2004 ERTF2005-2015 Decade of Inclusion2005 European Parliament resolution…. on the former
concentration camp at Lety u Pisku (removal of the pig farm) http://www.dzeno.cz/docs/rezoluce_en.DOC
Romani MEPs (Livia Jaroka)
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz dined with seven young Roma leaders on February 27 2006 in Prague to
get their views on efforts to empower the Romawww.worldbank.org/roma
CoE
The Roma and Travellers DivisionThe Group of Specialists on Roma, Gypsies
and Travellers (MG-S-ROM) Coordinator of Activities concerning Roma and
Travellers Project “Roma under Stability Pact for Southern
Europe”http://www.coe.int/T/DG3/RomaTravellers/Default_en.asp
CoE cont. ERTF
2001 Tarja Halonen -address to the Parliamentary Assembly on a consultative assembly to give Roma voice at international level.
2003 Joint French/Finnish proposal for non-governmental association adopted
consultation process 2004 ERTF registered as NGO, Partnership
Agreement w CoE. Dec. 2005 1st meeting, elected: President
(R.K.), Vice-Presidents, Executive Board. „Fight against school segregation of Roma“
http://www.coe.int/T/DG3/RomaTravellers/FERV/default_en.asp
ECRI European Commission against Racisms and Intolerance
Specialist Group on Roma and GypsiesEuropean Commission for Democracy through law The Parliamentary Assembly The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Programmes to build inter community confidence in societyCouncil of Europe monitoring departmentCoE Commissioner for Human RightsAdvisory Committee of the Framework Convention etc
Council of Europe - cont.
Example:Improving housing conditions of Roma
and Travellers in Europe • Recommendation Rec(2005)4 of the Committee of
Ministers to member states on improving the housing conditions of Roma and Travellers in Europe
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 23 February 2005 at the 916th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies) https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=825545&BackColorInternet=9999CC&BackColorIntranet=FFBB55&BackColorLogged=FFAC75
Key movements IRU, RNC & ERTF
1971 First World Romani Congress –> IRUIntellectual interest (in linguistics, culture), Gypsy Lore Society1888France CMG Communaute Mondiale Gitane 1959 (Ionel Rotaru),
CIT Comite Intl Tzigane (Vanko Rouda) –> 71 congress
Irish Traveller Community mid 60sFinish Gypsy Association, Spanish Secretariado Gitano, Slovak
and Czech Associations for Gypsies/Roma (68 –73) Facuna, Dr. Cibula
Gypsy Council in England 1966 Johnny BrazilNational Gypsy Education Council (1970 Lady Plowden) organised
next three IRU congresses renamed to GCECWCR (for education, welfare and civil rights)
World Romani Congresses (IRU)
1st 1971 London (Slobodan Berberski)
2nd 1979 Geneva (Jan Cibula)
3rd 1981 Gottingen, Germany (Rajko Djuric)
4th 1990 Warsaw (Rajko Djuric)
5th 2000 Prague (Emil Scuka)
6th 2004 Lanciano, Italy (Stanislav Stankiewicz)
RNC
Rom & Cinti Union in Hamburg (80s) -> RNC, Rudko Kawczynski
Grassroot, militant, Romani refugees from Eastern Europe – basic human rights approach
Pan-European Romani Identity
vs
nationalist “Zentralrat “ of German Sinti and Roma (81)
Matras, 1998:49-63, Puxon, 2000:94-113
NGO projects – example:
Roma Rights and Access to Justice in Europe
Overview Report and First Year Report
http://www.rraje.org/Reports/overview.pdf
Useful links and sourcesEuropean Roma and Traveller Forum http://www.ertf
.org/ ,
European Roma Rights Centre http://www.errc.org
European Roma Information Office http://www.erionet.org/Home.html
http://www.diplomacy.edu/roma/
Romea http://www.romea.cz/
WB (2003) www.worldbank.org/roma
UNDP (2003) http://roma.undp.sk
Czech Radio http://www.romove.cz
Any Feedback from Panel discussion? Kim & Hana
"Empowering Marginalized Social Groups: The Role of Identity and Culture„ American and Czech Experiences
When: March 7, 15:00-16:30 Where: Woodrow Wilson Center (Trziste 13, Prague
What: Among the issues discussed was:
• What are effective means for the advancement of marginalized social groups? U.S. and Czech experiences.
• How did identity politics work for African and Native Americans in the U.S.?