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  • ANTI-GYPYISM in EUROPE

Racism and Anti Roma resentments in Central and
Eastern Europe Ostraw November 2012
Pedro Aguilera ECRI Deputy Member in Honour of
Spain
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  • European Commission
  • against Racism
  • and Intolerance (ECRI)

The independent human rights monitoring body of
the Council of Europe in the field of combating
racism and intolerance
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  • ECRI is an independent human rights monitoring
    body specialised in combating racism, xenophobia,
    antisemitism and intolerance.
  • ECRI is composed of independent and impartial
    members. There is one member for each member
    State of the Council of Europe.
  • ECRIs action covers all measures necessary to
    combat discrimination and prejudice faced by
    persons or groups of persons on grounds of
    colour, language, religion, nationality or
    national or ethnic origin.

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Background
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  • The CoE estimates that there are over 11 million
    Roma in Europe, over 5 million of whom live
    outside the EU (notably in Turkey, Russia and
    Serbia).
  • Recent developments in several CoE member states
    have highlighted the fact that the Roma continue
    to be victims of discrimination and intolerance.
  • Strasbourg declaration, October 2010 pledge to
    cooperate at all levels on Roma issues (including
    EU, national governments, NGOs) including
    European training programs for Roma mediators and
    lawyers.

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  • General Policy Recommendations (GPR) are detailed
    guidelines to help shape national strategies and
    policies on particularly important issues.
  • Already in 1998 ECRI issued GPR N 3 on Combating
    racism and intolerance against Roma/Gypsies.
  • However in its long-term country-by-country
    monitoring activities, ECRI has documented that
    Roma continue to face serious problems throughout
    Europe. This is why ECRI decided to dedicate a
    specific GPR on how best to combat anti-Gypsyism
    and discrimination against Roma.

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General provisions
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  • Urges countries to ratify Protocol 12 to the ECHR
    (anti-discrimination), as well as the Framework
    Convention for the Protection of National
    Minorities.
  • Countries should develop and implement
    comprehensive national plans on Roma-related
    issues, working together with Roma
    representatives.
  • They should also develop mutual trust between
    Roma and public authorities, in particular
    through training mediators.

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  • What does anti-Gypsyism mean?
  • Recalling that anti-Gypsyism is an specific form
    of racism, an ideology founded on racial
    superiority, a form of dehumanization and
    institutional racism nurtured by historical
    discrimination, which is expressed, among others,
    by violence, hate speech, exploitation,
    stigmatization and the most blatant kind of
    discrimination.
  • Stressing that anti-Gypsyism is an especially
    persistent, violent, recurrent and commonplace
    form of racism, and convinced of the need to
    combat this phenomenon at every level and by
    every means

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  • Institutional racism nurtured by historical
    discrimination.

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  • Arrival in Europe
  • Ottoman Empire
  • The Ottoman Empire dominated the Balkans for
    over five centuries and made a distinct
    impression on the culture and history of the
    region. Thus the role of the Ottoman Empire is a
    key factor in the process of the formation and
    development of the Roma people
  • Wallachia and Moldovia
  • Unlike in any other European region, the Roma in
    former Wallachia and Moldavia (todays Romania),
    have lived in slavery for five hundred years. In
    the mid-19th century, when slavery was officially
    abolished, a large number of Roma left the
    country and migrated to Central and Western
    Europe as well as to America.

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  • Wallachia and Moldovia
  • Gypsies shall be born only slaves anyone born
    of a slave mother shall also become a slave
  • stated the code of Wallachia at the beginning of
    the 19th century.
  • .

Some figures In 1857 they were 33.267 Roma
Families in Wallachia 6,241 families had been
slaves of the STATE 12.081 families had been
slaves of the CHURCH 14945 families had belonged
to the Noblility
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  • Porrajmos (Holocaust)
  • The persecution of Gypsies which had lasted for
    centuries culminated in genocide under the NS
    regime.
  • Defined as a problem, asocials and racially
    inferior, the Roma were arrested and murdered in
    the German Reich and in the German-occupied
    territories.
  • Ideological basis
  • Criminal Police and ethonogenetic registration of
    Roma
  • The first deportation labour camps and massive
    executions and the Lodzs ghetto

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  • Ideological basis

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  • Criminal Police and ethonogenetic registration of
    Roma

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  • Third Migration

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  • ANTI-GYPSYISM BEHAIVOUR,TODAY

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  • ACCES TO HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
  • EDUCATION
  • HOUSING
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • FREE OF MOVEMENT
  • HEALTH
  • HATE SPEECH

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  • EDUCATION
  • Access to educational system in Europe. Some
    examples
  • In the Czech Republic and Slovakia was allowed a
    system of segregation of the Roma community,
    where Roma children were systematically enrolled
    in "special schools
  • These screens were "supported" anthropological
    reasoning and even had the approval of the
    educational community and the education ministry,
    as they have repeatedly denounced NGOs.
  • In 2007, the ruling of the European Court of
    Human Rights, DH and Others Vs Czech Republic
    Czech Republic sentence for violation of art. 14
    of the European Convention on Human Rights and
    Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education)

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  • R.P.G. Number 13 and EDUCATION
  • Each Roma child should have genuine access to
    nursery school.
  • Urgent steps should be taken to end segregation
    at school and the placement of Roma children in
    special schools.
  • Measures should be taken to prevent and combat
    stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination
    experienced by Roma in schools.
  • Teaching on the Roma genocide should be included
    in school curricula.

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  • HOUSING
  • 1.- Segregation
  • 2.- Security of tenure
  • We have been living here for over 20 years
  • we do not have ownership documents.
  • 3.- Availability of public utilities
  • 4.- Affordability
  • 5.- Habitability
  • 6.- Accessibility

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  • RP.G. Number 13 and HOUSING
  • Governments should combat forced or de-facto
    segregation.
  • Roma should not be evicted without notice and
    without opportunity for re-housing in decent
    accommodation.
  • Steps should be taken to legalise illegal Roma
    settlements built in breach of town planning
    regulations which have been tolerated for a long
    period of time by the authorities.
  • Governments should ensure that appropriate
    encampment whether for permanent occupation or
    transit areas are available in sufficient numbers
    on suitable and duly services sites.
  • Governments should make sure that Roma
    communities are not disadvantaged in respect of
    public services such as water supply,
    electricity, refuse removal, transport and access
    to the road system.

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  • R.P.G. Number 13 and EMPLOYMENT
  • Positive measures should be taken for Roma in
    respect of employment, as concerns particularly
    recruitment and vocational training.
  • Steps should be taken to stamp out discrimination
    against Roma as regards, inter alia, recruitment.
  • There should be no obstacles to Roma exercising
    their traditional trades.
  • Roma should be consulted to find alternatives to
    vanished trades in which they have traditionally
    engaged, for instance through loans and/or tax
    benefits.

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Health
  • The case of sterilization of Roma women in the
    Czech Republic and SlovakiaThe European Court
    of Human Rights declared admissible a case
    brought by VC against Slovakia by Slovak Roma
    women were sterilized without their full consent
    and without receiving enough information.
  • The Slovak Supreme Court found no grounds "fair
    and effective" by which this woman was
    discriminated against because of ethnic
    membership, sex or race.More than 100 Roma
    women have been forcibly sterilized in Slovakia,
    it argues NRC in its report to the European
    Commission in 2003. (Inna Zoon)

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  • R.P.G. and Health
  • Forced sterilization of Roma women should be
    expressly prohibited.
  • take measures to secure equal access to all
    quality health care to Roma
  • recruit health mediators, in particular from the
    Roma community to provide liaison between health
    personnel and managers and Roma
  • take positive measures to ensure that no
    financial or administrative
  • hindrance impedes the access of Roma to health
    care and medical treatment
  • prevent and combat any segregation in hospitals
    and in particular in maternity wards

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that the legislation, and its implementation, on
the freedom of movement of persons are not
discriminatory towards Roma
  • Free of Movement

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  • HATE SPEECH
  • According to far-right party Jobbik, 'Gypsies
    are blamed for everything.' And that is why
    Hajdúhadház has a militia called 'A better
    future
  • In Italy, Trevisso Majors knows how to eliminate
    all the Roma Children
  • Giancarlo Fini How can you integrate someone
    who considers roobery, not going to work, as an
    appropiatte behavoir, because women are who
    should do that, even in protitution?,,(Corriere
    della Sera ) 04/11/2011

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  • HATE SPEECH CONSEQUENCES

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  • HATE SPEECH
  • in the eyes of the population.Roma stands
    for
  • R of thieves
  • O for trouble junkies
  • M for knife pullers
  • A for aggressive people.
  • You dont want to see this reality. I repeat no
    integration stewards but police officers are what
    you need, to bring Roma back to where they
    belong Romania and Bulgaria, not here.
  • Mr. Filip DeWinter, deputy for the far-right
    party Vlaams Belang, during the plenary session
    of the Flemish Parliament on 16 November 2011.

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  • The participation of Roma in the media sector in
    general should be promoted by taking steps for
    journalists and presenters from among Roma
    communities to be recruited and trained.
  • The media should be encouraged to refrain from
    broadcasting any information likely to fuel
    discrimination and intolerance toward Roma.
  • The legislation and its implementation on the
    freedom of movement of persons within the EU
    should not be discriminatory towards Roma..
  • Governments should set up a comprehensive system
    for recording acts of violence against Roma.
  • Governments should also encourage systems to
    monitor anti-Gypsyism online and ensure effective
    prosecution.
  • All Roma children should be registered at birth
    and all Roma should be issued with identity
    documents.

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  • THANK YOU VERY MUCH
  • NAIS TUQUE
  • E-mail paguilera_at_esplai.org
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