JOAQUÍN CORTÉS DEFIENDE A LOS GITANOS EN LA EUROCÁMARA. Aunque no ha taconeado, el bailaor ha hecho una actuación estelar en el Parlamento Europeo. Y es que la causa lo requería: pedir que se equiparen los derechos de la minoría gitana a los del resto de ciudadanos de la UE. Además, se ha comprometido a trabajar con la institución europea en favor de ese objetivo. (Foto: EFE)
Debe estar pidiendo que se les deje de pagar por llevar a los niños al colegio, por meterse a vivir en un piso de nueva construcción o tal vez por temas más veniales como respetar las reglas de visita de los Centros Hospitalarios.
También pasan cosas como esta:
Slovenia chided over evicted Roma
A leading European human rights expert has criticised Slovenia over what he called the "unacceptable" forced relocation of a Roma (Gypsy) family.
The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg was commenting on the 30-strong Strojan family, threatened by a local mob.
He said it was "unacceptable" that they had had to leave "because the majority population in the area so required".
Roma form less than 1% of Slovenia's population of two million.
Last month, the Strojans were escorted by police out of their village, Ambrus, just outside the capital, Ljubljana, after residents threatened to expel them.
Later, the villagers, who accused the Strojans of stealing, organised protests against any move to let the family return home.
The Strojans are staying at a disused army barracks in Postojna, south of Ljubljana, awaiting relocation with government assistance.
Education Minister Milan Zver said the authorities had no option but to move them, Slovenia's STA news agency reported.
Protecting rights
Speaking at a news conference in Ljubljana on Thursday, Mr Hammarberg urged Slovenia's political and church leaders to spell out their opposition to racists and xenophobic behaviour.
"They have a particular obligation to stand up for human rights and tell people that minorities also have rights and that mob activities against minorities cannot be tolerated," he said.
Separately, a report from Amnesty International criticised shortcomings in primary education in Slovenia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia which it said "deprive Romani children of the chance of fulfilling their true potential".
It called for "immediate action to confront discrimination against Roma in schools by ensuring that no Romani children are placed in special classes or groups simply because they are Roma, by monitoring the composition of classes and, where needed, the activities of teachers working with Roma".
Many Roma children had little or no command of the language spoken by the majority population, the report said, adding that the teaching of Roma culture and history was neglected.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/e ... 155642.stm
Published: 2006/11/16 17:22:53 GMT
Pero en España la situación es más bien al contrario.
Dí sí a la integración en el Barrio Salamanca (Pozuelo, Las Rozas, Boadilla...Sarrià, l'Eixample...).
