MINELRES: CFP: European-wide Action Week Against Racism and new papers on Education and Minority Language

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: Alphia Abdikeeva <AAbdikeeva@osi.hu>


EUMAP Call for Papers (please forward!)

European-wide Action Week Against Racism, 20-28 March: Racism: Spot it
and stop it!

The European-wide Action Week Against Racism is organised by UNITED, a
voluntary ncooperation of more than 550 organisations from 46 European
countries - www.unitedagainstracism.org . 

This annual action week has become a regular event across Europe and to
mark it EUMAP.ORG is inviting you to send us articles, essays or opinion
pieces on the subject of:

Putting theory into practice! - New projects and initiatives in Europe
aimed at overcoming racism or discrimination and promoting tolerance,
social inclusion and integration of all groups into society

EUMAP is looking for papers which highlight "good practices" worth
sharing and replicating elsewhere in Europe (or "lessons learned" from
past experience) either at the local or national level, or at the
international level.

Quality papers will be featured on the EUMAP website (www.eumap.org)
with the intention of framing and encouraging debate on this issue.
Accepted authors will receive an honorarium of EUR 200. Original papers
in English, between 1,500 and 2,000 words, are due by 15 March 2004.

Please send your papers to: submissions@eumap.org . Contact person:
Alphia Abdikeeva

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NEW ARTICLES ONLINE: MINORITY EDUCATION -- WHAT MAJORITIES HAVE TO LEARN
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EUMAP.ORG is pleased to publish the following four new articles on
minority education:

The Right to Education and Minority Language, by Fernand de Varennes
"Minority language education is more of an asset than a liability when
understood and applied properly. It is not a right which is applicable
in every situation where one individual simply demands it. It is rather
a result that is consistent with the values of respect for diversity,
tolerance and accommodation - rather than rejection - of differences
which have become cornerstones of most democratic societies."

Full text: http://www.eumap.org/articles/content/96/964

The Education of Roma Children: Inroads to Good Practice, the REI
Example, by Christina
McDonald
"Education is one of the most important vehicles by which the
integration of minorities into mainstream society can be promoted. In
the case of the Roma, it has special importance, since exclusion from
society causes social deprivation."
Full text: http://www.eumap.org/articles/content/96/963

Education, Education, and More Education, by Lilla Farkas

"The conceptualisation of race and gender as separate and even unrelated
categories has perpetuated the marginalisation of Romani women in the
collection of statistical data. A multi-dimensional approach to the
collection of data is needed."
Full text: http://www.eumap.org/articles/content/96/962

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EUMAP.ORG is an online centre for comprehensive resources, news, and
analyses, committed to delivering information on, and generating debate
about, human rights and the rule of law in Europe.

EUMAP.ORG is the website of the Open Society Institute's EU Monitoring
and Advocacy Program.

To find out more about the Program click here:
http://www.eumap.org/about.

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EUMAP has published reports on:
 
- Minority Protection (in five largest EU members and ten candidate
counties)
- Corruption
- Judicial Capacity
- Equal Opportunities for Men and Women (in cooperation with OSI's
Network Women's Program/NWP)

The EUMAP reports are available here: http://www.eumap.org/reports.

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Currently EUMAP conducts the following monitoring:> 

- Access to Education and Employment for People with Intellectual
Disabilities (in cooperation with OSI's Mental Disability Advocacy
Program/MDAP)
- Broadcasting Regulation and Media Independence (in cooperation with
OSI's Network Media Program/NMP)
- Minority Protection (The series of four policy papers on the situation
of Muslims in the UK: Education, Equality and Discrimination, Access to
Justice, and Employment)