It’s not our opinion, it’s that of the Sundance Institute and the Sarajevo Film Festival: the documentary Totonel, a Strada Film project initiated by Policy Center for Roma and Minorities (PCRM) under the framework of the REACT – Make Europe an Equal Place for Roma project, deserves a place on your must-see list. The film will be released in a few months, but has
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June 1 came, as in previous years, with maximum fun. This time, the International Children’s Day Celebration moved from the streets indoors, where Policy Center for Roma and Minorities and Terre des hommes organized sports activities and games for 220 children. Schools no. 73, 136 and 148 from Ferentari hosted children who competed in team activities, came up with strategies to defeat their adversaries
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During the last few days, some 90 children from the Alternative Education Club took part in sports events organized by the Romanian Football Federation (RFF) in partnership with Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, within the framework of the UEFA Respect campaign. On June 1, the two football teams from the Alternative Education Club, trained by coach Laurențiu Gheorghe, competed next to 16 other
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The Policy Center for Roma and Minorities team took the stage twice during the 2012 Civil Society Gala, which took place on May 28 at the National Opera. The tenth edition of the Gala rewarded our efforts to promote social inclusion through alternative education, as well as the progress made by children from Ferentari, through two distinctions: the Dan Manoleli Excellence Award for the
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On the occasion of the Europea League final on May 9, Policy Center for Roma and Minorities (PCRM) President Valeriu Nicolae met with the UEFA delegation in Bucharest as a representative of PCRM partner FARE (Football against Racism in Europe), to who’s Board Mr. Nicolae has been elected to a three-year term. Mr. Nicolae highlighted the continued need to tackle anti-Ggypsyism and discrimination in
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Twenty eight years exactly since the first resolution on Roma was passed by the European Parliament, the EU is finally publishing its Framework Strategy on Roma. But is there any progress to report? On 24 May 1984 the European Parliament passed resolution C172/153, which acknowledged that “gypsies still suffer discrimination in law and practice,” and called on the governments of European member states to
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On May 9, 2012, the Policy Center for Roma and Minorities team and the children from the Alternative Education Club had the honor of hosting H.E. Ms. Ulla Väistö, Ambassador of Finland to Romania. Ms. Väistö, the embassy First Secretary Mr. Marco Pribilla and 11 members of the Subcommittee for Administration and Security of the Finance Committee of the Finnish Parliament visited the Club
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The children from the Alternative Education Club started the month of May in full force—on the football pitch, thanks to old and new Policy Center for Roma and Minorities (PCRM) partners such as the Romanian Football Federation (RFF), UEFA and the Terre des hommes Foundation. On May 1, Open Doors Day at the RFF training camp in Buftea, 120 children from disadvantaged communities (60
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22 March 2012: the biggest, and most expensive EU event ever on discrimination against women, promoted as an ‘Extraordinary meeting on discrimination against women and social inclusion in Europe,’ takes place in Brussels. The meeting focuses on the national strategies and EU framework meant to address discrimination and exclusion faced by women. The official agenda prepared by the European Commission shows 29 speakers. Two
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