MINELRES: Roma Rights 4/2003: Political Rights of Roma

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Roma Rights 4/2003: Political Rights

Roma Rights 4/2003 takes as its theme "Political Rights". Roma in Europe
do not exercise political rights on an equal basis with other citizens.
Roma are under-represented in political life and otherwise frequently
excluded from participation in public affairs. The exclusion of Roma
from public life is a factor which aggravates the belated and generally
problematic process of developing and implementing policies on Roma in
today's Europe. The current issue of Roma Rights presents the views of a
number of analysts of, researchers on and activists in the Romani
movement regarding the state of Romani participation and its prospects.
Particular attention is paid to the role of Romani women in public life.
The table of contents of Roma Rights 4/2003, including direct links to
articles, follows:


EDITORIAL
Political Rights of Roma, by Savelina Russinova
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/editori.shtml

NOTEBOOK
National Democratic Institute Assesses Roma Political Participation in 
Future EU Members: Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb1.shtml

Roma in Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, by Eva
Sobotka
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb2.shtml

Obstacles to the Participation of Roma in Elections in Romania, by
Cristi 
Mihalache
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb3.shtml

Legal but Illegitimate: The Gypsy Minority Self-Government in
J�szlad�ny, 
by Anita Danka and Nicole Pallai
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb4.shtml

European Forum For Roma And Travellers: From the Finnish Initiative to
the Franco-Finnish proposal, by Miranda Vuolasranta
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb5.shtml

The Romani Nation or: "Ich Bin Ein Zigeuner", by Paolo Pietrosanti
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/noteb6.shtml

WOMEN'S RIGHTS
The Challenges of and for Romani Women, by Nicoleta Bitu
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/womens1.shtml

Romani Women's Participation in Public Life, by Isabela Mihalache
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/womens2.shtml

SNAPSHOTS FROM AROUND EUROPE
Bosnia and Herzegovina * Bulgaria * Czech Republic * Germany * Greece * 
Hungary * Italy * Macedonia * Romania * Russia * Serbia and Montenegro * 
Slovakia * Slovenia * Spain * United Kingdom
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/snapshots.shtml

LEGAL DEFENCE
Court Action Against Segregated Education in Bulgaria: A Legal Effort to 
Win Roma Access to Equality, by Margarita Ilieva and Daniela Mihaylova
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/legal_defence.shtml

RESEARCH AND POLICY: FOCUS ON HOUSIGN RIGHTS
Report on the Field Research into the Housing Situation of Roma in the 
Village of Svinia, Slovakia, by Alexander Musinka
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/research1.shtml

Out and Away: The Housing Rights Situation of Roma in Hungary, by
Margaret Hagan and Tara Bedard
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/research1.shtml

ADVOCACY
ERRC/COHRE Housing Rights Action before European Committee of Social
Rights
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/advocacy.shtml

FIELD REPORT
Roma in Turkey, by Tara Bedard
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/field1.shtml

Highly Irregular Greek Police Investigation into the Ill-Treatment of 
Romani Men by Police Officers, by Panayote Dimitras
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/field2.shtml

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION
ERRC Scholarship Recipients: Academic Year 2003/2004
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/human_rights_education.shtml

ROMANI LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Lund Rekomodacie pala efektivo lethanipe/participacia nacionale 
minoriteturengo thaj eksplanaciake/sikavimaske note 
Romani-language translation of the Lund Recommendations on the Effective 
Participation of National Minorities in Public Life
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/romani.shtml

MEET THE ERRC
"Reflections from America", by Gloria Jean Garland
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/meet.shtml

CHRONICLE
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr4_2003/chronicle.shtml


Editor-in-chief: Dimitrina Petrova
Executive editor: Claude Cahn
Associate editor: Savelina Danova Russinova
News co-ordinator: Tara Bedard
Design and layout: Istv�n Fenyvesi

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