MINELRES: Roma Rights 3-4/2002: Segregation and Desegregation

[European Roma Rights Center]

Roma Rights 3-4/2002 addresses issues pertaining to segregation and 
desegregation of Roma in Europe.
Dimitrina Petrova, Executive Director of the ERRC, expressed the ERRC's 
position in the edition's editorial:
"We see segregation as an obstacle to accessing rights and we fight to 
remove it. ...School desegregation in the view of the ERRC is the first 
step and the backbone of Romani integration. Without it, school success in 
a ghetto school is inadequate once the child is out in the larger world, 
competing with non-Roma for university placements or for jobs. Even if the 
receiving school proves to be a hostile environment for children, ERRC is 
opposed to any improvement of ghetto schools and insists that these have to 
be abolished in a short period of time not exceeding five to seven years. 
Eliminating the current educational disadvantage of the Roma created by 
segregated schooling must in our view be addressed as a matter of urgency. 
We do not believe in teaching tolerance first and applying the knowledge 
only after the lesson is learned. Societies as well as individuals will not 
learn to be more tolerant before they start to act as if they are. The best 
project of ethnic tolerance training is the lived experience of the 
enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and policies."
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/index.shtml			


The contents of Roma Rights 3-4/2002, including Internet links directly
to articles, follow:

EDITORIAL
In Defence of Desegregation
Dimitrina Petrova
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/editori.shtml

NOTEBOOK
The Quality of Education in Romanian Schools with High Percentages of
Romani Pupils
Mihai Surdu
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb1.shtml

Low Standard Apartments as a Tool of Ethnic Segregation in the Czech
Republic
Petr Visek
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb2.shtml

In the Dark: Segregating Roma in Lithuania
Egle Kristina Kucinskaite
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb3.shtml

Segregating Walls in Europe Photo collage

International Non-Discriminatory Guarantees in Education: Empty Vows
or Effective Mechanisms?
Paivi Gynther
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb5.shtml

School Desegregation Action

Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education
Bill Taylor
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb6.shtml

Desegregation Photo collage

Successful Romani School Desegregation: The Vidin Case
Donka Panayotova and Evgeni Evgeniev
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb8.shtml

The Roads Before Romani Education: Thoughts after a Public Debate
Emil Cohen
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb9.shtml

Costs and Effects of the Step By Step Roma Special Schools Initiative
Benjamin Levin
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/noteb10.shtml

FIELD REPORT
Tenuous Living Conditions for Roma Throughout Greece
Theodoros Alexandridis
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/field1.shtml

Hungarian Villagers Enforce Mob Justice Solution to Prevent Roma from
Moving in
Orsolya Szendrey
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/field2.shtml

NEWS ROUNDUP: SNAPSHOTS FROM AROUND EUROPE
Bosnia and Herzegovina l Bulgaria l Croatia l Czech Republic l Denmark l
France l Germany l Greece l Hungary l Ireland l Italy l Kosovo l
Lithuania l Macedonia l Romania l Russia l Serbia and Montenegro l
Slovakia l Ukraine
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/snapshots.shtml

LEGAL DEFENCE
Racial Segregation in Croatian Primary Schools: Romani Students Take
Legal Action
Branimir Plese
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/legal_defence.shtml

ADVOCACY
ERRC Action as Hungary Goes Before the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/advocacy.shtml

GRANTS
Grants Awarded
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/grants_awarded.shtml

Grants Guidelines
Informacia Andai Stipendia (Grant Guidelines in Romani)
http://errc.org/grants/index.shtml

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION
Roma Rights Summer University 2002
Angela Kocze
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/hre1.shtml

Participants� Evaluation
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/hre2.shtml

ROMANI LANGUAGE PUBLICATION
Rromenge Problemura Pala Edukacia Ande Europa Romani-language
translation of ERRC position paper �Barriers to the Education of Roma in 
Europe�, submitted at the United Nations Special Session on Children, May 
8-10, 2002
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/romani.shtml

MEET THE ERRC
Meet(ing) the ERRC Andi Dobrushi
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/meet.shtml

CHRONICLE
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr3-4_2002/chronicle.shtml

Roma Rights is published quarterly in Budapest, Hungary, by the European
Roma Rights Center.
Editor-in-chief: Dimitrina Petrova
Executive Editor: Claude Cahn
Associate Editor: Savelina Danova Russinova
News co-ordinator: Tara Bedard
Design and layout: Istvan Fenyvesi
Internet design and layout: Peter Holtzl

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