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The ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues: An Overview
Date: 22 January 2001, Type: Factsheet
This brochure provides an overview of the goals and activities of the ODIHR's Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues. It describes the main issues that the Contact Point deals with, as well as the programmes it is undertaking in order to assist Roma and Sinti groups throughout the OSCE region.
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The ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues: An Overview (OSCE)
Ten years after the iron curtain fell, Europe is at risk of being divided by new walls. Front and center among those persons being left outside Europe's new security and prosperity are the Roma. ... To redress the long and hard experience of Roma requires, therefore, considerable attention, careful analysis, development of specific policies and commitment of adequate resources.OSCE report on the situation of Roma and Sinti, March 2000