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Regional Workshop on Community and Legal Action for Desegregation in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Organizer: 
Chance for Children Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner Room (103)
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 12:00am
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Date: 
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 12:00am to Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 12:00am

The regional workshop on community and legal action for desegregation in Central and South Eastern Europe will bring together three experts from each partner country of the Chance for Children Foundation (CFCF) including: Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. The participants will discuss and share their experiences on the segregation of Roma children in education and measures taken so far to end this practice.  A draft country strategy to tackle segregation in each of the partner countries has already been developed by CFCF together with its partners which will be discussed during the workshop and a final version of the country strategy will be adopted. The structure of the country strategies include: a short description of the Roma population, the organization of education and maintenance of schools, relevant legal provisions, the types of segregation and discrimination Roma children suffer, national measures aimed at desegregation, relevant jurisprudence, legal and community action planned to end segregation.

Please note that the first day of the workshop (February 25) will take place at the Open Society Institute, Budapest. The workshop will take place at Central European University, MB 103 (Gellner room) on February 26-28.

The workshop is organized by the Chance for Children Foundation in cooperation with the Open Society Foundations and CEU Legal Studies.