You want to know what the EU does for the Roma? We invite you to visit the
brand new EU Roma web portal: www.ec.europa.eu/roma.
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The year 2010 has been declared European Year against Poverty and Social
Exclusion. On Friday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs launched a
campaign against poverty here in the Czech Republic, and outlined just how
it aims to help the country’s poor.
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Today, 21 January, the European Commission and the Spanish Presidency of the
EU are launching the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social
Exclusion with an inaugural conference in Madrid hosted by the Spanish Prime
Minister José Luis Zapatero and European Commission President José Manuel
Barroso.
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Romany children in the Czech Republic still face unequal access to
education, says Amnesty International in a report which has just been
released. Two years after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that
placing Romany children in “special schools” was unlawful
discrimination, Amnesty International went back to Ostrava where the court
case was originally filed to see what had changed.
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On the agenda of the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday is a
much-discussed case that has been long in the making: a governmental
proposal to dissolve the far-right Workers’ Party. Different governments
have asserted that the party is a political wing of the neo-Nazi movement,
however a previous attempt to ban the party outright in early 2009 was
dismissed for lack of evidence. This time around the Ministry of the
Interior is sparing no punches.
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A Roma women’s conference and a television talk show highlighting
‘Roma-phobia,’ spearhead the Council of Europe’s efforts to focus
international attention on anti-Gypsyism in 2010.
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