OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights CPRSI Newsletter February 1996 Vol.1 No. 4 Inside This Issue: CPRSI Workshop On Violence Against In the course of discussion the participants ROMA, Warsaw 19 January reconfirmed that a special emphasis in the 1996..............Error! Bookmark not activities of the CPRSI should be defined. continuously placed on discrimination and Workshop On Violence Against Roma - violence against Roma. In this context a List Of specific need for prompt and reliable Participants................................Error! information about all cases of violence Bookmark not defined. available in the CPRSI was underscored. Fax List Of Roma NGO'S Participated In Such information would facilitate The Conference.......................................... substantially also the preparation of a Euroroma Holds Organisational special report on cases of violence against Conference in Budapest Roma and Sinti for the information of the Reports...................................................... OSCE Permanent Council. While addressing the situation of Roma and Sinti in different countries several common CPRSI WORKSHOP ON VIOLENCE levels were indicated for violent and racist actions against Roma and Sinti: individual AGAINST ROMAError! Bookmark not citizens committing criminal offense; defined. skinheads or extreme-right groups; Warsaw, 19 - 23 January 1996 collective actions of ethnic nature at the community level; police and other law enforcement institutions. International "Workshop on Violence against Roma" took place on 19 January That violence against Roma and Sinti is an 1996 in Warsaw. The meeting was all-European phenomenon, was pinpointed organised by the Contact Point for Roma in many contributions. It has been and Sinti Issues (CPRSI) within the manifested in many areas of public and ODIHR and was attended by 35 social life in various countries, i.e. inter- representatives of Roma and Sinti ethnic relations in the society, functioning associations and NGOs. Representatives of of governmental institutions and the Council of Europe and the UNHCR administration, practice applied in the were also present. system of justice, education, behavior of 1 OSCE CPRSI Newsletter Vol.1 No. 4 police, attitude of media, language used to 3. Bitu Nicoleta - Rromani CRISS - describe violence main characteristics. A Bucharest, Romania view of close interrelationship between 4. Blaha Bohuslav - Inforoma - violence against Roma and general living Bratislava, Slovakia standards in the society was commonly 5. Danova Savelina - Human Rights shared. Project - Sofia, Bulgaria 6. Djuric Rajko - International Romani Union - Berlin, Germany Participants also focused their attention on the issue of lack of legal assistance to Roma and Sinti in view of the growing 7. Emerson Martin - Minority Rights numbers of violent attacks and ethnic Group International - London, UK tensions around Roma refugees and 8. Farkas Florian - Association Lungo displaced persons. Better coordination of Drom - Budapest, Hungary different existing legal assistance 9. Galjus Orhan - Patrin - Presov, programmes dedicated to Roma as well as Slovakia education and training were strongly 10. Georgiev Peter - Bulgarian Parliament, recommended to be intensified in this field. Roma Confederation - Sofia, Bulgaria The participants furthermore indicated the 11. Gheorge Nicolae - Rromani CRISS - need for effective continuation of the Bucharest, Romania liaison function of the CPRSI and its 12. Gina Ondrej - Fund of Hope and cooperation on Roma and Sinti issues with Understanding - Czech Republic the Council of Europe and the European 13. Graven Mieke - Sinti-Werk - Best, Commission. Several proposals were made Netherlands to strengthen the CPRSI, in terms of its 14. Grigorichenko Petr - Ukrainian staff and resources. An expectation was Association of Roma - Kiev, expressed that it might be examined at the Ukraine OSCE review conference later this year. 15. Jevremovic Dragan - Romano Centro - Vienna, Austria During an exchange of views on the urgent 16. Jimenez Nicolas - Rromani Cexrain need for increasing prevention of violence, and F.A.G.E.X - Zafra, Spain the CPRSI proposal for convening a 17. Kawczynski Rudko - Roma National "Workshop on Roma and Sinti and the Congress - Hamburg, Germany Media" was welcomed. 18. Kjutchkov Christo - Ministry of Education - Sofia, Bulgaria The participants recommended also that 19. Kocze Angela - Autonomia Foundation future workshops on violence against - Budapest, Hungary Roma take place in other countries. 20. Kruck Christina - Soros Rroma Foundation - Zurich, Switzerland 21. Liegeois Jean - Pierre - Centre de LIST OF PARTICIPANTSError! Bookmark Recherché Tsiganes - Clichy, not defined. France WORKSHOP ON VIOLENCE AGAINST 22. Lodzinski Slawomir - Helsinki ROMA Foundation - Warsaw, Poland 23. Mirga Andrzej - PER Romani Advisory Council - Krakow, Poland 1. Adamajtis Bozena - Roma National 24. Raducanu Gheorge - Partida Romilor - Congress - Hamburg, Germany Romania 2. Bajda Piotr - Helsinki Foundation for 25. Russinov Rumyan - Human Rights Human Rights - Warsaw, Poland Project - Sofia, Bulgaria 2 OSCE CPRSI Newsletter Vol.1 No. 4 26. Rooker Marcia - Catholic University - 6. Farkas Florian - Association Lungo Nijmingen, Netherlands Drom - Budapest, Hungary - 27. Rossberg Arnold - Zentralrat Deutcher 3611767435 Sinti und Roma - Heidelberg, 7. Galjus Orhan - Patrin - Presov, Germany Slovakia - 4291733902 28. Sarkozi Rudolf - Association of 8. Georgiev Peter - Bulgarian Parliament Austrian Roma - Wien, Austria - Sofia, Bulgaria - 359394608 29. Scuka Emil - ROI - Czech Republic 9. Gheorge Nicolae - Rromani CRISS - 30. Stankiewicz Stanislaw - Soros Roma Bucharest, Romania - 4012117868 Foundation - Bialystok, Poland 10. Gina Ondrej - Council for Minorities - Czech Republic - 421813011 31. Vasecka Michel - Inforoma - Bratislava, Slovakia 11. Graven Myeke - Landelijke Sinti 32. Valama Helge - Ministry of Labour - Organisatie - Best, Netherlands - Helsinki, Finland 31498372915 33. Weiss Lalla - Landelijke Sinti 12. Grigorichenko Petr - Ukrainian Organisatie - Best, Netherlands Association of Roma - Kyiv, 34. Wierzycka Lucja - Helsinki Foundation Ukraine - 70444842358 - Warsaw, Poland 13. Hancock Ian - Per Romani Advisory 35. Zolotorenko Vladimir - Open Society Council - Austin, USA - Fund - Kyiv, Ukraine 015122954772 14. Hereida Juan de Dios Ramirez - Alfredo Miccio, John Murray - Council of Barcelona, Spain - 193434127040 Europe - Strasbourg, France 15. Jevremovic Dragan - Roma Centro - Luigi Cabrini, Hy Shelow, Jakub Boratynski - Vienna, Austria - 4317496336 UNHCR - Warsaw, Poland 16. Jimenez Nicolas - Centro Sociocultural Paulina Merino, Elizabeth Winship, Jacek "Garcia de la Huerta" - Zafra, Paliszewski, Ilya Belkin, Ireneusz Spain - 3424552177 Stepinski, Tanja Koch - Contact Point for 17. Kawczynski Rudko - RNC - Hamburg, Roma and Sinti Issues - OSCE/ODIHR - Germany - 4940310475 Warsaw, Poland 18. Kjutchkov Christo - Ministry of Education - Sofia, Bulgaria - 3592882485 FAX LIST OF ROMA NGO'S 19. Kocze Angela - Budapest, Hungary - PARTICIPATED IN THE CONFERENCE 3611767435 Error! Bookmark not defined. 20. Koptova Anna - Romathan Theatre - Kosice, Slovakia - 4295435796 1. Bitu Nicoleta - Rromani CRISS - 21. Kruck Christina I. - Soros Rroma Bucharest, Romania Foundation - Zurich, Switzerland - 2. Cartner Holly - Human Rights 4113836302 Watch/Helsinki - NY, USA - 22. Liegeois Jean - Pierre - Centre de 012129720905 Recherché Tsiganes - Clichy, 3. Courthiade Marcel - Rromani Baxt - France - 33147312923 Tirana, Albania - 3354235197 23. Mirga Andrzej - PER Romani 4. Djuric Rajko - International Romani Advisory Council - Krakow, Poland Union - Berlin, Germany - - 4812366932 49308548075 24. Nickels John - International Romani 5. Emerson Martin - Minority Rights Union - US Branch - Group - London, UK - 016097297768 441818625708 3 OSCE CPRSI Newsletter Vol.1 No. 4 25. Nowicki Marek - Helsinki Foundation - Romania will participate in Euroroma. Poland - 6296996 / 6269875 / Besides setting up educational courses and 6281008 Romani media in Romania and Slovakia, 26. Orgovanova Klara - Open Society Euroroma will establish legal offices for Fund, INFOROMA - Bratislava, Roma, which already function in the other Slovakia - 4275314730 two countries 27. Paun Nicolae - Partida Romilor - Bucharest, Romania - 4013225199 REPORTS 28. Plaks Livia - Project on Ethnic Relations - Princeton, USA - A Report on the Way in Which 016096835888 Citizenship Law of the Czech Republic Is Being Implemented, With Particular 29. Raducanu Gheorge - Partida Romilor - Regard to the Romany (Gypsy) Romania - 4013225199 Population, Tolerance Foundation, August 1993 30. Rossberg Arnold - Zentralrat Deutcher Sinti und Roma - Heidelberg, Bulgaria: Increasing Violence Against Germany - 496221981190 Roma in Bulgaria, Human Rights Watch 31. Russinov Rumyan - Human Rights Helsinki, November 1994 Project - Sofia, Bulgaria - 3592875577 Countering Anti-Roma Violence in 32. Sarguera Jean - Rroma Association - Eastern Europe, Project on Ethnic Paris, France - Relations, 1994 33. Sarkozi Rudolf - Association of Austrian Roma - Wien, Austria - Estatutos, Union Romani, February 1992 431375194 34. Scuka Emil - Prague, Czech Republic - Events and Issues in the Former Soviet 42224914690 ext. (faxova linka) Union and Europe: Roma, Open Media 34504 Research Institute, August 1994 35. Stankiewicz Stanislaw - Soros Roma Foundation - Bialystok, Poland - Fundamentos del Pensamiento Gitano,